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What Teaching in China Taught Me About Religious Freedom 0
- International
- January 16, 2020
The meaning of religious freedom came home to me, fittingly enough, by the dawn’s early light, slanting through a dormitory window in China many years ago. I was one of 10 young people spending a summer teaching English as a Second Language classes at an agricultural college 3,000 miles west of Beijing, in what’s known
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How New Rules Allow Men to Dominate Women’s Sports 0
- January 16, 2020
Women’s athletics have been a subject of a growing transgender inclusion controversy that threatens to blow open wide as high school sports, college, the Olympics, and even the professional level are grappling with how to balance fairness with a new demand for “inclusion.” There are questions about how transgender athletes should qualify for participation, and
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The Dehumanizing Horror of Facebook Tag Groups 1
- Culture
- January 16, 2020
When I was in high school, I had a classmate who obsessively sorted everyone in the school into made-up categories. It seemed like every week, he would invent new sets of criteria by which to group us. For reasons I couldn’t fully explain, I hated it. It was only years later, when employers started asking
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Saving the Real American Dream in 2020 0
- Culture
- January 16, 2020
In Mark Helprin’s humorous and insightful novel Freddy and Fredericka, Freddy, the bumbling Prince of Wales and heir to the throne, and his spoiled wife Fredericka, are dispatched on a special mission: to conquer the United States of America. Wearing “modesty panels of golden rabbits’ fur,” they parachute into New Jersey at night and set off
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New Hampshire Is Fighting Back to Defend the Electoral College 0
- Politics
- January 15, 2020
New Hampshire legislators have introduced an election bill that would be completely unacceptable under normal circumstances. But these are not normal times. Constitutional institutions, especially the Electoral College, are under attack. Extraordinary action may be needed. Thus, some New Hampshire legislators have proposed to withhold popular vote totals at the conclusion of a presidential election. The numbers
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Could the Bible Return to American Public Education?0
- Education
- January 15, 2020
As the 2020 election approaches in the United States, President Donald Trump is adding school prayer to the list of contentious issues up for debate. At a rally in early January he announced plans to “safeguard students’ and teachers’ First Amendment rights to pray in our schools.” On the schedule of the White House later
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