Blog 3 Columns

The Pushback Against Preschool 0
- Education
- December 30, 2015
With reports coming out that typical preschool programs can actually be a detriment to a child’s academic and social success, perhaps it’s not surprising that parents are looking for alternatives. One recent alternative is outdoor preschool. According to The New York Times, outdoor preschool pushes back against society’s trend toward obesity, electronics, and standardized academics,
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Survey: Most Parents Say They Never Spank Their Children 0
- Culture
- December 30, 2015
Yesterday, Intellectual Takeout posted on Dr. Leonard Sax’s belief that there’s been a decline in discipline and parental authority in the American family. Today, we thought we’d post on the results of a recent Pew Research Center survey, which breaks down exactly how parents say they are attempting to discipline their children: “Parents employ many
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Some men just want to watch the world burn 0
- Culture
- December 30, 2015
In the West there seems to be an assumption that runs through a variety of political orientations that if we just solve poverty, provide more freedoms, or accommodate more desires that all people will be peaceful. We seem to have forgotten that the West’s system of government and general political outlook has traditionally been rooted
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Reading Philosophy on Your Own 0
- Uncategorized
- December 30, 2015
Reading philosophy can be tough-going, and ideally, you have an expert to help you through it – at least initially. However, philosophy now has a diminished role in modern curricula, leaving most people to fend for themselves if they want to gain familiarity with the Western philosophical tradition. For those who would like to venture
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Orwell’s “1984” One of the Bestsellers in Russia in 2015 0
- Politics
- December 30, 2015
Under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, some have accused Russia of slipping back toward totalitarianism. Which is why some news outlets see significance in the fact that George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel 1984 was one of the bestselling books in Russia this past year. Paul Gobel at the blog Window on Eurasia writes, “Russians
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Mass communication promotes mass conformity 0
- Culture
- December 30, 2015
Surely it’s obvious that we live in a mass communication world. What may not be obvious to those of us in the 21st century is that this has been going on for a long time now and the consequences were foreseen way back when. In The Rape of the Mind (1956), Joost Meerloo digs into the
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Is Archaeology Increasingly Proving the Bible to Be a Reliable Source of History?0
- December 30, 2015
While looking through headlines the other day, the opening of one in particular caught my eye: “Archaeological Discoveries Prove Jesus Existed.” Clicking through to the article, I found an interview with author Robert Hutchinson, who describes recent archaeological discoveries which he declares lend credibility to biblical accounts. According to the article: “One of the main
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Instant New Year’s Resolutions from Ben Franklin 0
- Culture
- December 30, 2015
Ben Franklin once said, “Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.” This little ditty is heavily quoted during this time every year as people make their goals for the coming year. But what many may not realize is that Franklin’s famous quote is part of a longer list of 13
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Bestselling Books: 1915 vs. 2015 0
- Culture
- December 30, 2015
Below are Publishers Weekly’s lists of the bestselling books from 1915 and 2015. As you might notice, in 1915 the bestselling books all belonged to the fiction genre: 1915 Bestsellers 1. The Turmoil, Booth Tarkington 2. A Far Country, Winston Churchill 3. Michael O’Halloran, Gene Stratton Porter 4. Polyanna Grows Up, Eleanor H. Porter
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The Pushback Against Preschool 0