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  • Does Putin Want to Make Moscow ‘the Third Rome’?

    Does Putin Want to Make Moscow ‘the Third Rome’?0

    Russian athletes were conspicuous in their neutral colours during this year’s Winter Olympics and Paralympics due to a ban based on doping allegations. In Vancouver in 2010 and in Sochi in 2014, however, Russia’s Olympic hockey jerseys prominently featured a two-headed eagle exactly where Canada’s jerseys highlighted the maple leaf. This two-headed eagle is not

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  • 5 Ways Obama’s Discipline Policy Made Schools Less Effective and Safe

    5 Ways Obama’s Discipline Policy Made Schools Less Effective and Safe2

    As is typical with so many other policies, federal meddling in what should be a local matter leads to poor results. This is the conclusion reached Monday by a Heritage Foundation panel about a school discipline initiative, launched by the Obama administration, that suddenly became the subject of national debate after the Feb. 14 massacre

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  • 4 Bits of Advice from Ben Franklin on How to Be a ‘Rational Being’

    4 Bits of Advice from Ben Franklin on How to Be a ‘Rational Being’0

    Have you ever noticed that there seem to be fewer calm and level-headed people these days? Almost everyone seems to operate through a lens of emotion and feeling rather than plain ol’ common sense. This is perhaps no surprise as schools and society have encouraged a feelings-oriented approach to life through the advancement of positive

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  • Motherhood: What Women Really Want (and Many Aren’t Getting)

    Motherhood: What Women Really Want (and Many Aren’t Getting)0

    I recently ran across an ABC News article by Jessica Mendoza, a mother of two. As an analyst for ESPN, Mendoza has a pretty high-profile, demanding job to balance with her role as a mother. Yet in spite of these demands, Mendoza decided to add something else to her plate a few years ago: homeschooling.

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  • Hannah Arendt on How Loneliness Breeds Terror

    Hannah Arendt on How Loneliness Breeds Terror1

    Thinkers as early as Aristotle observed that man is, by nature, a social creature. For this reason, there has been a surge of media attention on the “loneliness plague” which the Information Age has wrought. Most media attention has focused on the health consequences of loneliness, which stand to overwhelm government health systems in the

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  • Utopia is a Dangerous Ideal: We Should Aim for ‘Protopia’

    Utopia is a Dangerous Ideal: We Should Aim for ‘Protopia’1

    Utopias are idealised visions of a perfect society. Utopianisms are those ideas put into practice. This is where the trouble begins. Thomas More coined the neologism utopia for his 1516 work that launched the modern genre for a good reason. The word means ‘no place’ because when imperfect humans attempt perfectibility – personal, political, economic

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