Feeding Mind, Pursuing Truth
Blog 3 Columns
- Home
- Blog 3 Columns
Meet the Woman Who Helped Make Thanksgiving a US Holiday0
- Culture
- November 22, 2017
For much of the 19th century, Thanksgiving was only celebrated by New Englanders and Northeastern transplants in the upper Midwest and New York. Without the dogged activism of Sarah Josepha Hale—a novelist, poet, and the editor of “Godey’s Lady’s Book,” a lifestyle magazine with an impressive pre-Civil War circulation of 150,000—Thanksgiving may never have become
READ MORE
Can Homeschooling Break the ‘Glass Ceiling’?0
- Culture
- November 22, 2017
The BBC recently held the “100 Women Challenge,” which highlighted various females and their success in breaking the glass ceiling. One of these women is Camille Eddy, a 23-year-old STEM major who is now interning in Silicon Valley as a mechanical engineer. Camille realizes that her position as a female in the typically male
READ MORE
Back in My Day, Young’un…0
- November 22, 2017
As the saying goes, kids these days never had it so good. Monty Python made a great sketch based on this idea: old men complaining about the young people of today and competing as to who had the most uncomfortable upbringing. To paraphrase, “back in my day I had to walk to school and back,
READ MORE
Porn and Sexual Assaults: Is there a link?0
- Culture
- November 21, 2017
At this point I’m utterly disgusted by almost everything I’ve read about the various sexual misdeeds of famous and powerful men. Yes, almost all of these accounts are merely allegations, but I’m finding the apologies of most of these men to be truly wanting and indicative of some guilt. Furthermore, the descriptions of the assaults
READ MORE
Politically Correct Myths About Race and Student Misbehavior Shackle Teachers1
- Education
- November 21, 2017
School officials sometimes refuse to suspend violent or disruptive students just because they are black, and school administrators believe that “too many” black students have already been suspended compared to the number of whites. Former school official Edmund Janko describes how he himself did this, to achieve a veiled racial quota, in a City Journal
READ MORE
Playboy Says Terms Like ‘Toxic Masculinity’ Aren’t Helpful. But Did Playboy Give Us Toxic Masculinity?0
- Culture
- November 21, 2017
These last few weeks, amid the flood of sexual assault allegations stemming from what pundits are calling the Weinstein Effect, it occurred to me that perhaps the gender feminists are right. After all, an objective person can only read so many stories about powerful men chasing women with manhood in hand—quite literally—before the thought creeps
READ MORE
One-Third of Young Americans Say Complimenting a Woman’s Looks is Sexual Harassment0
- Culture
- November 21, 2017
It seems we have launched into a full-blown epidemic of sexual misconduct in the short time since the Harvey Weinstein allegations surfaced. Roy Moore, Al Franken, and Charlie Rose are only a few of the individuals who have been outed as allegedly treating women inappropriately in the last several decades. Hearing these accounts is alarming.
READ MORE
Doctor Explains Why It’s Not Prudish to Encourage Modesty0
- Culture
- November 21, 2017
When a couple of young female passengers were barred from boarding a United Airlines flight because they were wearing leggings, the internet exploded with accusations of sexism. When high school girls in Los Angeles showed up to school in spaghetti straps and off-the-shoulder tops, the dress code was deemed outdated. And when actress Mayim Bialik
READ MORE
Can We Say That Anyone Is Definitely ‘Rotting in Hell’?0
- Religion
- November 21, 2017
Many people, even non-believers, know that “canonizing” somebody means naming them a saint. It’s the (Catholic or Orthodox) Church proclaiming—usually after an elaborate process of investigation requiring evidence of miracles as well as holiness—that their souls are in heaven. But nobody has ever been canonized to hell. The Church does not consider herself authorized to
READ MORE