Blog 3 Columns

Do You Know Your Latin Abbreviations?0
- Education
- February 21, 2018
Answers: e.g. = “exempli gratia” (“for the sake of example”) i.e. = “id est” (“that is”) N.B. = “Nota Bene” (“note well”) p.s. = “post scriptum” (“after what has been written”) QED = “Quod Erat Demonstrandum” (“which was needing to be demonstrated”) R.I.P. = “Requiescat in Pace” (“may he rest in
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Confused Wellesley Students Protest Scholar Believing She Opposes Transgender Rights (She Doesn’t)0
- Education
- February 21, 2018
Some 100 Wellesley students last week turned out to protest the lecture of Dr. Alice Dreger, a bioethicist and former professor at the University of Northwestern and Michigan State, who’d been invited to speak by the school’s Freedom Project. Following her lecture, Dreger was confronted by lines of protesting students. Some of them wore masks;
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4 Reasons Congress Doesn’t “Act” on Gun Violence 0
- Politics
- February 21, 2018
The recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, has again created a debate over whether or not the country needs additional gun control laws. Rather than wading into that debate, perhaps we should explore why so little progress is made on this issue. After each of the recent mass shootings or school shootings we have seen
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Why Does America Have a Second Amendment?0
- History
- February 20, 2018
Mass shootings have become almost a regular occurrence in modern America. Every few months, we watch the television reports in horror: a lone gunman descends on some location—a concert, school, church, or nightclub—and opens fire on a group of unarmed people. It has become customary for Americans to call on federal lawmakers to “do something”
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Parents Just Lost Custody of Teenage Daughter Who Wants to ‘Transition’ to a Boy: What You Need to Know 1
- Culture
- February 20, 2018
Parents in Ohio lost custody of their 17-year-old daughter Friday because a judge ruled that she should be allowed to receive therapy, including testosterone therapy, to identify as a boy. Without commenting on the specifics of this case just outside Cincinnati, Americans can expect to see more cases like it as government officials side with
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Isn’t Father Loss Part of Nikolas Cruz’s Story?0
- Culture
- February 20, 2018
In the wake of last week’s mass shooting at a Florida high school America is once again embroiled in a debate about how this could have happened again and how to prevent such horrific behaviour and loss of life. Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old who went to his former high school on Valentine’s day armed with
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Is Western Civilization Committing Suicide?0
- History
- February 20, 2018
In the past century there have been numerous thinkers who have outlined the signs of the decline of Western Civilization. We have mentioned many of them in articles for Intellectual Takeout: Richard Weaver, Georges Bernanos, Alasdair MacIntyre, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Samuel Huntington, David Bentley Hart, and Rod Dreher. I will now add another one to the
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‘The Last Jedi’ and the Politicization of Storytelling 0
- Culture
- February 20, 2018
There’s been a disturbance in the franchise: Ambivalence, rather than anticipation, has characterized the online response to Disney’s announcement of the deluge of new Star Wars projects we are to be saturated with over the next several years. And while the trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story (scheduled for May) was expected to be
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Why Arts-Focused Field Trips Make Students Smarter 0
- Culture
- February 19, 2018
We live in a time in which education statistics are a bit bleak. According to the Nation’s Report Card, only 40 percent of 4th grade students are proficient in math, while even fewer are proficient in reading. Given those numbers, it’s not surprising that so much attention is devoted toward ideas to turn these scores
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Do You Know Your Latin Abbreviations?0