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Children Help Adults to Grow Up 0
- Culture
- May 3, 2016
It is a truism that children need adults to help them grow up. It is, however, less known but equally true that adults need children to help them grow into the fullness of maturity. Whereas children need to be taught about life in all its multifarious manifestations, satisfying their natural sense of wonder and their
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Is there a Measurable Benefit to Public Art?0
- Culture
- May 3, 2016
In the Western world, it’s widely assumed that making works of art easily available and visible to the public improves people’s lives in tangible ways. Having lived in half-a-dozen major American cities and one English city, I’ve seen public art everywhere. Much of it is funded in whole or part by the taxpayers. But what,
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Is ‘More Diversity’ Really the Answer to Racial Problems?0
- Culture
- May 3, 2016
With all of the racial tension lately, is diversity really the answer to our racial problems? This seems to be the solution that the San Francisco Police Department favors at a time when it is under scrutiny for racist text messages among its officers. As Paul Elias reports for the Associated Press, “San Francisco’s police
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Do Most Humans Long to Be Ruled?0
- Politics
- May 3, 2016
Is America ripe for a dictatorial coup? It’s a question more and more pundits are asking. (We’ve also chimed in.) Why? First, it’s a presidential election year. And everyone gets a little crazy crazier during election season. But it’s more than that. Ross Douthat, writing in the New York Times over the weekend, observed that
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Born That Way? The Evolution of Humanity, Sex, & Gender 0
- Culture
- May 2, 2016
Nothing is so senseless that some person will not profess it. To cling to the greatest absurdities, indeed, has customarily been reserved for those with higher degrees in education. But today, the common man can believe in the most ridiculous things too, for he has been convinced of his great knowledge by the self-esteem lessons he has been
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Chesterton on the ‘New Rebel’0
- Culture
- May 2, 2016
Orthodoxy (1908) is known as one of G.K. Chesterton’s classics. What is truly fascinating about the work is that it is both a critique of the social and cultural changes taking place at the turn of the last century and a sort of prophecy of what was to come. Arguably, we are living in or
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