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Psychologist: “Modern Life is Not Good for Mental Health”0
- Culture
- March 18, 2016
The subtitle of Dr. Jean Twenge’s book may say it all: “Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled—and More Miserable Than Ever Before.” As Jesse Singal explains in a piece for NY Mag, Twenge—a social psychologist at San Diego State University—has spent many years examining why “ever since the 1930s, young people in America
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Who actually is intolerant, violent and wants to suppress speech?0
- Culture
- March 18, 2016
On Friday, March 11, America was treated to the mass disruption of a Donald Trump Rally in Chicago. Based on the celebration by the protesters, the goal was to shut down political speech. There is no other way to describe the actions of the protesters other than intolerant, violent, and hateful. Such actions aren’t limited
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How Ice Cream Won the Cold War 0
- Economics
- March 18, 2016
Richard Nixon stood by a lemon-yellow refrigerator in Moscow and bragged to the Soviet leader: “The American system,” he told Nikita Khrushchev over frosted cupcakes and chocolate layer cake, “is designed to take advantage of new inventions.” It was the opening day of the American National Exhibition at Sokol’niki Park, and Nixon was representing not
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Don’t Expect Your Spouse to Make You ‘Happy’0
- Family
- March 17, 2016
When you make a commitment to marry someone, it shouldn’t be because you expect that person to make you ‘happy.’ Perhaps this sounds crazy. It seemingly runs counter to what much of our culture teaches us to hope for from marriage. But there it is. I have seen marriages break up for both a variety
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St. Patrick didn’t Drive Out the Snakes 0
- Culture
- March 17, 2016
A common myth that has persisted for 1,500 years is that St. Patrick drove out the snakes of Ireland. That is simply not the case. He did do a great many of things, but that is not one of them. A Treasury of Irish Folklore (1967) sheds some light upon a possible reason for the
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You Can’t Have Social Justice without Free Speech 0
- Culture
- March 17, 2016
Cases of college students demanding restrictions on free expression are making the news on a weekly basis. While much criticism has been directed at student calls for “trigger warnings,” “safe spaces,” and the “right not to be offended,” less has been said about the impetus behind this advocacy. If we assume the best of those
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