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Students Arrested for Sharing Copies of U.S. Constitution 1
- Culture
- January 20, 2017
Sometimes I think we must be living in an Alice-in-Wonderland world. At least, it sure seems like it if we judge from the number of times we’re forced to cry “Curiouser and curiouser!” because of the cognitive dissonance which abounds around us. Take the incident at Kellogg Community College in Michigan which recently came to
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Why Americans Need to Give Trump a Shot 0
- History
- January 20, 2017
Donald J. Trump was sworn in as America’s 45th president on Friday. Tens of millions of people watched the ceremony, which took place on the National Mall amid a sprinkling rain. Many no doubt watched the event with excitement, others with fear. I’ll admit that I felt both of these emotions as I watched Trump
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How Teachers Are Doing Violence to Books 0
- Education
- January 19, 2017
My friend’s daughter attends a local school with a classical curriculum, where they are now reading Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Many people would hear this and immediately laud the school for its rigor and devotion to the Great Books. But predictably, as my friend’s daughter told me, the teacher is guiding students through the text
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British Study Explains What Public Schools Can Learn From Private Ones 0
- Education
- January 19, 2017
It’s always been considered important to train children in the hard, concrete, academic skills such as math, science, and reading. But in recent years, teaching “soft skills” – attitudes such as determination and persistence which affect a student’s future social promotion – has also become the domain of the school system. Recognizing this trend, researchers
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Raising Sons in the Age of Trump 0
- Culture
- January 19, 2017
One of the most disturbing facets of the wave of hysteria sweeping half the nation in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential election victory is the recent trend of feminist confessionals about their problematic feelings for their male children. In a recent opinion piece for The Sydney Morning Herald, self-declared feminist Polly Dunning, herself the daughter of a
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Why Don’t We Call It Rape or Child Molestation When a Woman is the Perp?1
- Culture
- January 19, 2017
On the day I wrote this story, the headline of the number one story on the Washington Post website was this: “Texas teacher who had sex almost daily with 13-year-old student gets 10 years in prison.” Despite the fact that the offense was technically rape, which is why the teacher, Alexandria Vera, is now spending a decade
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