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C.S. Lewis on the Decline of Reasoning 0
- Culture
- April 14, 2016
The old adage declares that “there is nothing new under the sun.” Nevertheless, it’s hard not to be amazed when something written by past generations strikes to the heart of what we are dealing with today. So it was when I picked up a copy of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters written in 1942. For
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The Real Debate is over Human Nature 0
- Culture
- April 14, 2016
In Federalist #51, the ‘Father of the Constitution’, James Madison, argued: The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of
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Did Stanford Students Just Reject Western Civilization?0
- Western Civilization
- April 14, 2016
Did Stanford students just reject Western civilization? According to the headline of a Daily Caller story a few weeks ago, they did. Given what actually happened, that seems grossly exaggerated. But not by as much as some might think. A few months ago, the conservative campus paper The Stanford Review proposed instituting, as part of
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Psychologist: ‘Authoritative Parenting’ is Best for Children 0
- Culture
- April 14, 2016
Several months ago, Dr. Leonard Sax made headlines when he proposed that the lack of discipline we see in America today is simply the surface symptom of a greater problem: the decline of parental authority. Dr. Sax’s theories were recently underscored by psychologist Lisa Damour in a New York Times piece on the benefits of
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The Virtues of Book Ownership 0
- Culture
- April 14, 2016
“Can you spare a dollar so I can buy this book?” I heard a man’s deep voice ask this question as I raced up a flight of stairs, speeding my way to the second floor of the local public library to drop off some overdue books. His voice was coming from the library’s “sale room”
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Huxley in Letter to Orwell: My Book Was Right 0
- Education
- April 14, 2016
Aldous Huxley and George Orwell wrote arguably the two most popular novels portending the West’s dystopian future. For decades, thinkers have opined on which of the two starkly distinct totalitarian nightmares–that of Huxley’s Brave New World or Orwell’s 1984–was more likely to come to pass (or, as some contend, had come to pass). What has garnered rather little
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