Blog 3 Columns

Can #MeToo Feminism and the Hookup Culture Coexist?0
- Culture
- January 16, 2018
There is a scene in the 2017 hit romantic comedy The Big Sick that shows the perfect one-night stand. The protagonist, a 30-something Pakistani immigrant named Kumail (played by Kumail Nanjiani of HBO’s Silicon Valley), meets an attractive grad student (Zoe Kazan) at a Chicago comedy club where he moonlights as a comedian. They have
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California Makes 20x What Gas-Station Owners Make on a Gallon of Gasoline, After Tax Hike 0
- Economics
- January 16, 2018
California drivers experienced sticker shock at the gas pump on Nov. 1. The state’s gasoline tax rose by 12 cents per gallon that day, bringing the total to 39.8 cents. Along with the federal gas tax of 18.4 cents, Californians now pay 58.2 cents in excise taxes per gallon. Like all other states with sales
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A Modest Proposal to Break Up Higher Ed 0
- Education
- January 16, 2018
Many today regard America’s college system as broken, and would like to see it broken up. As the argument goes, too many kids are being pushed toward college only to receive a substandard education that leaves them with a crushing amount of debt. In my opinion, the biggest obstacle to accomplishing the breakup of the
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7 Ways Tech Executives Limit Their Children’s Internet Usage 0
- Culture
- January 16, 2018
When a friend of mine mentioned that her daughter had developed greater interest in reading in recent weeks, I responded with enthusiasm. Opening her eyes wide in mock innocence she went on to say, “It happened after we got rid of our home Wi-Fi. Imagine that!” Such a move may seem alarming – and perhaps
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Why One Inner City College is Bringing Back Plato 0
- Culture
- January 15, 2018
If we’ve learned anything in recent months, it is that the race, gender, or orientation of an author matters far more than the content of his or her book. As a result, many colleges are abandoning the works of literature which have long laid the foundation of western civilization. Being “woke” more often than not
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Why MLK’s Vision of Love as a Moral Imperative Still Matters 0
- Culture
- January 15, 2018
2017 was a year of increased conflict in the United States. Many diverse communities were forced to confront a range of challenges related to anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia and anti-immigrant feelings. These challenges strike at the heart of what it means to live in a multicultural, democratic society. Yet, it is not the first time America
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The Suffering of Surrogacy: A Veteran Feminist Spells It Out 0
- Culture
- January 15, 2018
What do Jimmy Fallon, Lucy Liu, Sarah Jessica Parker, Neil Patrick Harris, and Ricky Martin have in common? They all bought babies via surrogacy. You might have seen them in glossy women’s magazines. Of course the women who bore the babies are nowhere to be seen; they would have received but a small cut of
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The Subtle ‘Tyranny’ of Regulatory Overlords 0
- Economics
- January 15, 2018
If you’re a business owner, you quickly learn the pains of regulation and how it impacts your ability to survive and thrive. Author and theologian C.S. Lewis framed the topic best when he said, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would
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Notre Dame Prof Calls Higher Ed Today ‘Bullshit’0
- Education
- January 15, 2018
Every week it seems like we hear from a professor who has become disillusioned with the higher education system. The latest one is Christian Smith, professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame. Last week, his jeremiad against the modern university appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Smith’s beginning two paragraphs set the
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Can #MeToo Feminism and the Hookup Culture Coexist?0