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A Primer on Courage0
- September 16, 2015
Courage, also known as “fortitude” or “bravery,” is one of the four cardinal virtues along with prudence, justice, and temperance. Along with temperance, courage helps one to conquer the obstacles to doing the good with prudence and justice. According to Aristotle, one possesses the virtue of courage if he/she “faces and … fears the right things …
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Obama Comes Out Against Intolerant College Students0
- September 15, 2015
At a town hall meeting yesterday in Iowa, President Obama put in his two cents on the increasingly intolerant and censored atmosphere of today’s college campuses. As it turns out, he’s not a fan of it. According to yesterday’s article in Vox, here’s what he said: “It’s not just sometimes folks who are mad that
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More Americans Today Really Need to Read the Anti-Federalist Papers0
- September 15, 2015
Last week, we took a look at several important quotes from the Federalist Papers, a collection of writings composed to support the adoption of the U.S. Constitution of 1787. However, the adoption of the Constitution wasn’t necessarily a smooth path. A number of arguments and cautions against the Constitution were offered in the months preceding
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Libraries: Filling the Community and… Skills Void?0
- September 15, 2015
On Monday, The New York Times ran a piece discussing the evolving nature of libraries. “Libraries aren’t just for books, or even e-books, anymore. They are for checking out cake pans (North Haven, Conn.), snowshoes (Biddeford, Me.), telescopes and microscopes (Ann Arbor, Mich.), American Girl dolls (Lewiston, Me.), fishing rods (Grand Rapids, Minn.), Frisbees and
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Adults are Using Children’s Activities to Unwind0
- September 15, 2015
These past few days, I’ve had two reminders about how stressful work is for many Americans today. The first reminder came when I watched Beyond the Brick: A Lego Brickumentary with my children the other night. In the film, they profiled the growing community of adults who build with Legos, known in the Lego world
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Why Modern America Might Have the Most Equality It Ever Had0
- September 14, 2015
We hear a lot about equality these days: equality in income, education, marriage, gender, race, class – the list could go on. Judging by many of the complaints which come from various interest groups, one would assume that the inequality of Americans is actually increasing as time goes on. But are things really that bad?
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This Clip Shows the Paradox of Western “Individualism”0
- September 14, 2015
As summarized by Hillsdale College English professor Dwight Lindley: ?”At one point in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, the ridiculous protagonist finds himself at an upper window, addressing a large crowd of determined, sheeplike followers: ‘You don’t need to follow me,’ he cries. ‘You’ve got to think for yourselves. You’re all individuals!’ To which
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The Potential Problems with Universal Pre-K0
- September 14, 2015
It always seems like there is some new panacea being promised for the nation’s educational woes. At one time, that panacea was No Child Left Behind, then Race to the Top… and in the last several years, universal preschool. Endorsed by high-profile politicians such as Hillary Clinton and President Obama, more and more states are
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The Emerging Victimhood Culture is Scary0
- September 14, 2015
By now you’ve most likely heard about the increasingly sanitized, PC culture that is coming to predominate on college campuses. And on a weekly basis you witness a public figure self-immolate in an attempt to quell the frenzied demand of a mob for an apology. So what’s going on? A recent scholarly paper from Bradley
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