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Don’t Expect Your Spouse to Make You ‘Happy’0
- Family
- March 17, 2016
When 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
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Did Anti-Trump Protesters Actually Help Trump?0
- Culture
- March 17, 2016
As 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
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Despite Appearances, These Are Great Times for Human Liberty0
- History
- March 17, 2016
Are 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
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Are We at the Beginning of an Age of Barbarism?0
- History
- March 17, 2016
Giambattista 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
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5 Myths about Apprenticeships0
- Culture
- March 17, 2016
It’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,
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What are ‘Checks and Balances’ in Government?0
- History
- March 16, 2016
The 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
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This is How the Irish Saved Civilization0
- History
- March 16, 2016
The 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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The Main Purpose of Education in a Republic0
- Education
- March 16, 2016
When it comes to education, it seems everyone has a different idea as to the best course of action: Do we keep Common Core or ditch it? Should we test more, or do we have too many tests already? Should they learn critical thinking or should they be taught to memorize facts? And on it
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Should We Care that Military History is Neglected in School?0
- Education
- March 16, 2016
In his book Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child, Professor Anthony Esolen relays the following story of two homeschool brothers: “[They] got their hands on battle plans, pored over them, committed them to memory, and turned the basement into a battlefield. They drew out the woods and hills and rivers in chalk,
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