If you really want to see a heated debate, don’t bother with politics. Find a “mommy blog” and look for a thread or post on working moms vs. stay-at-home moms. You can almost be guaranteed that the comments will be filled with some of the most vicious vitriol you’ve ever seen. Ever since women started
READ MORELast week, Tomi Lahren, a 23-year-old political commentator for The Blaze, ended her show by raising the following question: “Is it just me, or have men gotten really soft these days?” She goes on: “This has nothing to do with sexuality. It has to do with the helplessness of today’s young men. It seems few
READ MOREWhen 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
READ MOREAs we know now, Donald Trump dominated the Republican electoral competitions on March 15, taking Florida, Missouri, Illinois, and North Carolina. On Friday, March 11, the nation watched as a coalition of different Left-leaning groups descended upon a Trump rally in Chicago and effectively shut it down through disruptions and protests. The question going into
READ MOREAre you despairing of the presidential electoral trajectory? You are not alone. You are in the majority, one might even say the silent majority. A majority of voters in both major American political parties tell pollsters that they neither like nor trust the front runners for the nomination. This is true even in states where
READ MOREGiambattista Vico (1668-1744) was one of the most significant philosophers of history of the modern era. In his major work The New Science (1725), Vico famously outlined what he believed to be the recurring cycle of human civilizations (using Greece and Rome as his primary examples), and his outline of the three ages of this
READ MOREIt’s National Apprenticeship Week in England, and although the Brits are more accepting of the practice than the United States, they still deal with several misconceptions about apprenticeships. Five of these were recently addressed in The Guardian and are abbreviated below: Myth 1: Apprenticeship students are dumb failures. Fact: Instead of being high school dropouts,
READ MOREThe modern understanding of checks and balances is that of government divided into separate and distinct branches. Each branch is endowed with certain safeguards to prevent against concentration and abuse of power. The concept of checks and balances has been widely implemented in a variety of constitutional governments, including the United States, where powers are distributed
READ MOREThe title chosen Thomas Cahill’s bestselling book—How the Irish Saved Civilization—was definitely a marketing triumph. Even many of those who have never read the book are now aware that the Irish were somehow involved in “saving civilization.” On this, the eve of St. Patrick’s Day, I thought it a fitting time to repeat Cahill’s basis
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