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The Woman Who Warned the World about Hitler0
- History
- May 5, 2016
Some people can smell a rat a mile away. Others don’t notice even when the odor wafts right under their noses. Olfactory proficiency by itself doesn’t make you a hero. But if you’re among the first to pick up the scent and warn others, and then you put your political future on the line to
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The Key Thing That Differentiates Ancient and Modern Schoolteachers1
- Culture
- May 5, 2016
In recent years, America’s schools have attempted to train teachers of the highest quality. To ensure quality, teachers are trained to know the latest and greatest theories and philosophies in child development, lesson planning, and teaching technique. But in our rush to educate these teachers in the latest and greatest education philosophies, have we overlooked
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The Actual ‘Sword in the Stone’?0
- History
- May 5, 2016
Even if you haven’t actually read a version of the legend of King Arthur, you’ve probably seen one of the movies or TV miniseries about it. I well remember the least serious: the 1963 animated Disney classic The Sword in the Stone, which many children from then on have also seen. We just don’t have
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Reintegrating the Humanities0
- May 5, 2016
I have always sought to instill into my students that a knowledge of literature is not possible without an adequate knowledge of history, philosophy and theology. I stress, for instance, that we cannot know the plays of Shakespeare unless we know something about the time and culture in which he was living and the philosophical
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Ben Franklin on the Value of Rational Debate0
- Culture
- May 5, 2016
When students in a maximum security prison education program beat out West Point cadets in a debate competition a while back, the story made headlines because of its almost man-bites-dog nature. West Point debate coach Adam Scher recently responded to the phenomenon in an opinion piece for The Washington Post. As Scher implies, debate competitions
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3 ‘Bad Loves’: When Freud and Christian Theology Actually Agree0
- Culture
- May 5, 2016
Love is perhaps the greatest emotion humans can feel. It’s generally viewed as a positive concept, but philosophers, literature, and psychologists have long attempted to show that love of the wrong things in the wrong ways is a great vice. The philosopher Mortimer Adler, in his book The Great Ideas, identified three types of “bad
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12 Times Calvin and Hobbes Taught Us about Philosophy & Religion0
- Entertainment
- May 5, 2016
As you may know, Calvin & Hobbes contains religious and philosophical significance in its very title. In a nod to his political science classes in college, creator Bill Watterson named Calvin after John Calvin, the 16th-century theologian and reformer, and Hobbes after the 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Here are 12 times that philosophy and religion spilled
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Would Hillary Clinton really be the first female president?0
- Education
- May 4, 2016
A cornerstone of Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been that she would be America’s first female president, and it has been a theme her supporters consistently have trumpeted. “When folks talk about a revolution,” Sen. Debbie Stabenow said earlier this year. “The revolution is electing the first woman president of the United States.” This makes political
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Why feminists hate Lord of the Rings0
- Culture
- May 4, 2016
“Ever since I arrived at Cambridge as a student in 1964 and encountered a tribe of full-grown women wearing puffed sleeves, clutching teddies, and babbling excitedly about the doings of hobbits, it has been my nightmare that J.R.R. Tolkien would turn out to be the most influential writer of the twentieth century. The bad dream
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