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Professor: Children’s Imaginations Are Being Destroyed 0
- Culture
- March 14, 2016
Driving by a house with several children romping around in the front yard wrestling one another or running around in absurd dress-up costumes almost never fails to make me smile. Unfortunately, those smiles are few and far between because this scene now rarely occurs. Where has the imagination of children gone? Providence College professor Anthony
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Is Comfort Dulling Americans’ Minds?0
- History
- March 14, 2016
Ancient Greece represents a time of almost unparalleled intellectual creativity in world history. It had Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Democritus, Solon, Herodotus, Archimedes, and Hippocrates. But according to many authors, what Ancient Greece did not have during its Golden Age was an obsession with comfort. And this fact may have played a large role in
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For These 10 States, Perception Isn’t Reality When It Comes to Education 0
- Education
- March 14, 2016
Ask almost any American if the nation’s schools are in bad shape and they’ll likely say yes. But ask those same Americans how their local public schools are doing and you might get a different story. A new Gallup poll asked the latter question and found that some states have quite a positive view of
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It’s Scary What Americans Now Label as ‘Religious Extremism’0
- March 14, 2016
Unsurprisingly, most Americans think of ISIS’ killing of people for refusing to convert to Islam as a case of “religious extremism.” What is surprising is some of the other things that Americans now label as “religious extremism.” A story this week in The Atlantic by Jonathan Merritt focuses on the pertinent results of a poll
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The Intolerant Student Left 0
- Culture
- March 14, 2016
Increasingly, Americans have witnessed the suppression of speech on college campus not by conservatives or white racists, but rather by individuals representing the very groups who most often call for tolerance and accuse others of hate. The spread of censorship and intolerance isn’t limited to America. Britain is seeing a wave of intolerance sweep through
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Are These 20 Basic Skills in Danger of Extinction?0
- Culture
- March 14, 2016
If teenagers today need to locate something on Google Maps, no problem. If they need to locate something using a traditional map, they’re probably screwed. Skills such as being able to read a map or start a fire were once considered essential for everyday life. Now, however, possession of these skills is increasingly rare. A
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