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Do White People Commit a Disproportionate Number of Mass Shootings?0
- Politics
- March 29, 2018
In the wake of the Parkland shooting, young people have become defacto mascots for anti-gun advocates and national media. Putting a bunch of children on national television to discuss complex, highly-charged issues is not a good thing, in my opinion, especially after said children have experienced a traumatic, life-changing event. We saw why recently on
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Why Men Are Being Told to ‘Be Careful’ About Holding a Door Open for a Woman0
- Culture
- March 28, 2018
Recently my workplace instigated new measures to ensure a safer, more equitable environment. This included learning what constitutes sexual harassment. As part of this exercise, I was asked to rate the acceptability of a man holding a door open for a woman. Although it was deemed “generally acceptable,” men were advised to be careful with
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The Anti-Gun Movement’s Use of Child Crusaders Debases National Discourse0
- Culture
- March 28, 2018
Impassioned by the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas shooting that left 17 families without loved ones and a school forever changed, Cameron Kasky, Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, and other MSD students have embarked on a crusade for stricter gun laws—and become de facto spokespersons for the anti-gun movement. With emotions still raw and wounds both physical and
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Pass a test to vote?0
- Education
- March 28, 2018
In the wake of the Parkland school shooting, calls to extend voting rights to high school students under the age of eighteen have suddenly risen to prominence. One of the main arguments used by advocates is that adults are making rules about guns while the kids are doing the dying. Rhetorically, it’s a noteworthy line
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Parents, Stop Doing Your Child’s Homework1
- Education
- March 28, 2018
Parent or not, most adults have probably helped a child with his schoolwork at some point or another. The process can be rewarding, but also very frustrating, particularly when you as the adult can see the answer as plain as the nose on your face, but the child finds the subject clear as mud. At
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G.K. Chesterton: Women Shouldn’t Pursue Careers?0
- Culture
- March 28, 2018
As we drove home from a family trip, my wife and I got to talking about the challenging situations some of her female friends find themselves in. They are unbelievably successful in their careers, but struggle with balancing work, family, and, especially, the careers of their husbands. Indeed, for a few of them it seems that everything is
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5 Charts that Explain Why Millennials Are Not Having Children0
- Culture
- March 28, 2018
Today, roughly one in five women in the U.S. doesn’t have children. Thanks in part to this decline in birthrate, for the first time in U.S. history, there may soon be more elderly people than children. Based on trends in costs, it’s evident why many families are choosing to have fewer children – or in
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The Sexual Revolution’s Unwanted Progeny0
- Culture
- March 27, 2018
A few months ago, I wrote about the sexual revolution that needs to happen, but won’t. Partly because the more powerful can, and often do, elicit grudging “consent” from the less powerful, seeing mutual consent as the sole moral criterion for sexual interactions is problematic. That’s one of the sexual revolution’s unwanted progeny. We need
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The Real Reason We Have Mass Shootings0
- Culture
- March 27, 2018
One of the unavoidable tragedies of youth is the temptation to think that what is seen today has always been. Nowhere is this more noticeable than in our responses to the recent Parkland, Florida, massacre. Part of the responses to those murders are calls to raise the age to purchase a gun and to have
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