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Can’t stand Hillary or Trump? Here’s what you must do.1
- Politics
- August 2, 2016
I can’t recall an election in which the two leading candidates were more reviled in both breadth and depth. The rejoinder I keep hearing is that 2016 is the Lesser of Two Evils Election. The data bears this out. A poll conducted in May by the Washington Post found that 57 percent of people
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Why cooking from scratch is still important 1
- Culture
- August 2, 2016
When I was in 6th grade, my mother bravely invited 10 of my friends to a local church kitchen and taught them how to make apple pie. If such a scenario leaves you envisioning a scene of mass destruction, you’d be close. After all, our casualties that day only included one upset bowl of cinnamon
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Are We Living in T.S. Eliot’s ‘Waste Land’?0
- Culture
- August 2, 2016
It’s almost a century since T. S. Eliot shocked the world with the avant garde innovation of “The Waste Land,” the fragmentary form of which reflected the fragmented brokenness of the modern world that it satirized. Like a modern-day inquisitor, Eliot questioned the value of modernity: “What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
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The Sokal Affair: Why can’t academics write clearly?0
- Culture
- August 1, 2016
Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized. The above is an excerpt from philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s
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Mark Twain’s Top 5 Tips for Living a Kick-Ass Life 0
- Education
- August 1, 2016
Mark Twain was a prolific writer, satirist, humorist and lecturer, and he always had some sort of quirky, sometimes ironic, wisdom on just about everything. As the author of books like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, his prominent place in literature has been forever cemented in history. Here are five Mark Twain
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Teacher: Public Schools Can’t Support Gifted Students 0
- Education
- August 1, 2016
Over the weekend, columnist Jay Mathews presented a revealing anecdote in The Washington Post about the nature of public education. According to Mathews, Maryland student Caitlyn Singam recently graduated at age 15 with an SAT score of 2200. Such a feat is impressive, particularly since her kindergarten teacher wanted to make Caitlyn a special needs
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