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  • Christians Can Be ‘Secular’, Too

    Christians Can Be ‘Secular’, Too0

    When most people hear the word “secular,” they associate it with those who either don’t believe in God or don’t attend church and pray on a regular basis. That’s one of the meanings of the term described by Charles Taylor in his monumental work A Secular Age: “… secularity consists in the falling off of

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  • Bubble-Wrapping Children: School Bans Students from Touching Snow

    Bubble-Wrapping Children: School Bans Students from Touching Snow0

    Several years ago, the now world-famous clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson made a list of 32 rules for living and posted them on Quora. Those rules became so popular that Peterson fleshed out a handful of them in the book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. Peterson’s original list was headed by a simple

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  • The Real Reason Women Avoid Careers in Math and Science

    The Real Reason Women Avoid Careers in Math and Science1

    Remember James Damore, the young Google engineer who was sacked last August for resisting the company’s gender equality programme? Damore wasn’t against having more women in tech, he just did not believe the present male-female imbalance is owing to sexism and can be rectified by changing men’s attitudes. The sexes tend to have different work

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  • Media Misinformation About Arming Teachers0

    Misinformation can be deadly, especially when it comes to issues like school shootings. This is because it can build support for policies that increase fatalities and generate opposition to reforms that can save lives. Despite these high stakes, a wide array of media outlets have spread fictions about violence, firearms, and armed security in the

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  • Media Admits Russian Bots Thing is ‘Total Bullsh*t’

    Media Admits Russian Bots Thing is ‘Total Bullsh*t’0

    We’ve pointed out that the narrative that “the Russians did it” is getting a little out of control. BuzzFeed apparently agrees. Wednesday, in a piece titled “Stop Blaming Russian Bots For Everything,” the media outlet said enough is enough. “By now you know the drill: massive news event happens, journalists scramble to figure out what’s

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  • Is Sweden Socialist? No, but …

    Is Sweden Socialist? No, but …0

    The myth that Sweden is a utopian paradise where all the social problems have been solved and that you can have high growth with high taxes has been touted by Bernie Sanders as well as the many Millennials that follow him.   The glory days for Sweden economically took place prior to the 1960s, when

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