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Why So Many College Grads Are Bartenders 0
- Culture
- February 27, 2017
Imagine you are offered a job to work 60 to 70 hours a week as an English graduate assistant, teaching those who need to be taught and doing some research at a salary of about $15,000 a year. You love to teach and you care about people, so you take the job. You begin to
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Feminine Beauty that Endures the Ages 0
- Culture
- February 27, 2017
In London, the National Portrait Gallery has opened a major exhibition made up of images of Audrey Hepburn, called “Portraits of an Icon”. And as noted by this article in The Conversation, it portrays a world of difference from the celebrity status that currently exists. What is it about women like Audrey Hepburn and Grace
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Delta Paid for Its Own Security Upgrade and Solved All its Problems 0
- Culture
- February 27, 2017
The security lines at the Atlanta airport had grown progressively worse. The lines grew longer, the crowds ever more unruly, the invasiveness of the process ever more intense, the mood of the TSA more crabby and scary. Customers were miserable. It had been getting more terrible all the time, unsustainably so. Those of us who
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The Ego is an Enemy 0
- Culture
- February 27, 2017
From President Trump, to entertainers, to students on college campuses, there seems to be no shortage of individuals who are quick to take offense. They are reacting to what seems quite real to them, but truth is not established by one’s interpretation of events. We have all been there. Our defensiveness caused us to misinterpret
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Dear Professor Tirrell: Speech isn’t Toxic, People Are 0
- Culture
- February 27, 2017
In Jean-Paul Sartre’s play “No Exit,” the character Joseph Garcin concludes that torture and other forms of physical punishment pale in comparison to the torment of poor company. So he pronounces that “Hell is other people.” The same cynical view overcomes me when intelligent people theorize about the harm caused by offensive speech. Lynne Tirrell,
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Philosopher Roger Scruton on ‘The Virtue of Irrelevance’0
- Culture
- February 27, 2017
Have you ever glanced through your child’s homework and noticed… well… just how focused it is on the present? Whether it be a reading assignment, or a math problem, or even a science experiment, much of today’s curriculum seems to tie into some modern, social justice-minded issue. Meanwhile, the more classic elements of education, such
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