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The War on Poverty is Not Going Like You Think (We’re Actually Winning)0
- Economics
- May 25, 2016
Our World in Data put out a chart recently showing positive and perhaps surprising news: the world is winning the fight against extreme poverty. And it is winning in a big way. The chart, based on data collected by Max Roser, an economist and research fellow at the University of Oxford, shows that the number
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Intolerant Leftists Shut Down Gay Alt-Right Speaker 0
- Culture
- May 25, 2016
It seems that every week or even every few days we’re treated to another example of college students blocking free speech, shouting down a speaker, or thoroughly disrupting an event. What’s surprising is who is doing it. All of these videos so far have been self-acclaimed “social justice warriors” on the Left or members of
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Magazine Declares the Death of Free Will 0
- Education
- May 25, 2016
Does free will exist? Even if it does not, we’re better off believing it does. So argues philosopher, writer, and erstwhile diplomat Stephen Cave, in the June issue of The Atlantic. But does that even make sense? That depends on how one defines ‘free will’—a question which Cave addresses only obliquely, and to which I
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Should Boys be Encouraged to Live Dangerously?0
- Culture
- May 25, 2016
When I was a child, my father regaled me with tales of how he and his friends once formed “The Boys Army” and spent their days creating original inventions and stockpiling weapons in their homemade fort in the woods. As with many forms of play, the thrill came not so much from fighting the “enemy,”
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Can You Define These Winning Scripps Spelling Bee Words?0
- Culture
- May 25, 2016
Over the last ten decades, students from all over the United States have made their way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee. In most cases, only one winner walks away with the prize after spelling a little-known word. And in most cases, the rest of us walk away scratching our heads over the definition of
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Psychologist: Having Children Makes Us Unhappy, Kills Romance 0
- Family
- May 25, 2016
Dreaming of getting married, having children, and living happily ever after. You might be in for a rude awakening, according to psychologist Matthew D. Johnston. Johnston, the Director of the Marriage and Family Studies Laboratory at Binghamton University in New York, surveyed decades of research on the psychological effects of raising children and shared his
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