By the time you finish reading this article, some 600 people from all over the world will have escaped poverty. In 1990, 35 percent of the world population lived in extreme poverty. Today, that figure has fallen to 10.7 percent, according to the World Bank. In 1987, there were 660 million poor people in China. After its economy
READ MORECampus Reform journalist Cabot Phillips recently performed an interesting experiment. He visited John Jay College in New York City to get student reactions to President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address. But instead of reading lines from Trump’s speech, he selected a handful of quotes from Barack Obama’s State of the Union: “We
READ MORESeveral important new studies on the serious risks to young women for depression and suicide from the use of hormonal contraceptives should be presented to male youth and adults who are considering or who are using hormones in preparation for sexual reassignment surgery. While this risk of depression and suicide has not been proven yet
READ MORELess than five years after winning a Pulitzer Prize for exposing surveillance abuses in U.S. intelligence agencies, Glenn Greenwald increasingly finds himself accused of being a stooge of Vladimir Putin. The latest accusation comes from Claus Wilke, a Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas, who tweeted on Sunday that Greenwald was a
READ MOREIt’s not often that someone has the courage to make a straightforward, common sense observation that goes against cultural talking points. When that does happen, however, it’s hard to keep from laughing outright, which is what I did when I came across a Twitter statement from American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers. The subject
READ MOREDo a quick search for “snakes” in the news and you’ll find people terrified, bitten or, sadly, killed by these creatures. Many of us fear their slithering ways and researchers have found evidence which suggests that humans have evolved a tendency to spot snakes more easily than other animals. But there are more than 3,500
READ MOREThe time is approaching when many workers may have to say “welcome” to their new robot overlords… and say goodbye to their jobs. According to a November 2017 report put out by the McKinsey Global Institute, up to 30% of jobs worldwide could be automated by the year 2030. Will your job be one of
READ MORESpeakers invited to Hillsdale College have been hitting home runs lately. Two talks in particular poignantly diagnose the toxic effects of identity politics: one by University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax, who recounts her recent experience of it; the other by political journalist Matthew Continetti, who argues that it’s counterproductive as well as un-American.
READ MOREFrom the way you move and sleep, to how you interact with people around you, depression changes just about everything. It is even noticeable in the way you speak and express yourself in writing. Sometimes this “language of depression” can have a powerful effect on others. Just consider the impact of the poetry and song
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