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Is Parental Fear of Boredom Overworking Kids?0
- Culture
- January 30, 2017
Growing up, I knew better than to utter those two infamous words of childhood: “I’m bored.” The reason I rarely uttered them was because I knew that my mother would immediately find some type of chore to “entertain” me with. Today’s kids rarely utter the “I’m bored” phrase either. Only their reason for not doing
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Can the Nazis be Forgiven? Exploring the Complexities of Forgiveness 0
- History
- January 30, 2017
Friday, Jan. 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day – an annual day that honors the memories of the victims of the Nazi era. Seven decades after Hitler perpetrated his terrible genocide on the Jewish people, the world is faced with a disturbing question: Can the Nazis be forgiven? As a member of a Jewish family
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Super-Rich Survivalists Are Preparing for an Apocalypse 0
- Culture
- January 30, 2017
Have you ever imagined what you would do in the event of a zombie apocalypse without the zombies? End times without the return of the savior? A nuclear winter? An environmental catastrophe? A bloody revolution? Most of us have, but preparing for the apocalypse seems pointless. At most, we might drive to the local warehouse
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Reality: Most People Don’t Care about Truth 1
- Education
- January 30, 2017
“The pain of our corruption must be healed by virtue, knowledge, and eloquence.”—Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) In the wake of the “Trump phenomena” and other recent political developments, many people have become concerned that we have entered a “post-truth” era characterized by a contempt for objective facts. Fittingly, Oxford Dictionaries made “post-truth” the word of the
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What Trump’s Executive Order on Refugees Does (And What it Doesn’t)0
- Politics
- January 30, 2017
Before I even had my Saturday morning coffee I received a text from a friend linking to a New York Times op-ed with the headline, “Trump’s Immigration Ban Is Illegal.” As I ground beans, the wife of a prominent conservative friend posted on Facebook that she was “heartbroken” over the ban, and that she promised
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How to Raise Kids to Be Leaders—Not Twitter Trolls 0
- Culture
- January 27, 2017
At the start of 2017, the Atlantic author Ta-Nehisi Coates self-importantly announced he was taking a year-long sabbatical from Twitter to focus on that old-fashioned long-form genre: the book. He’s not the only one taking a Twitter hiatus; lots of celebrities and writers have taken temporary breaks from the social media platform. But the compulsion—or
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