Blog 3 Columns

Year-Round Sports: Growing Old and Wearing Thin?0
- Culture
- October 17, 2017
Not long ago, I was walking through a parking lot hurriedly looking for my car so as to get away from the drizzling rain. Climbing in and catching my breath, I glanced up at the adjacent field in which a soccer game was taking place. It was ringed with dedicated parents huddled under umbrellas, probably
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Why More Gun Control Laws Won’t Stop Las Vegas-type Massacres 0
- Politics
- October 17, 2017
To minimize the chances of another horrific massacre like that in Las Vegas, imaginative risk assessments must be made and acted on by ordinary citizens, organizations that sponsor events, and state and local authorities. The most ineffective, irrelevant reaction would be for Congress to enact yet more gun control legislation. While the federal Gun Control
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What Homer Can Teach Us About Leadership and Tyranny 0
- History
- October 17, 2017
What makes a good leader? This question confronts us at every election and with every domestic and international policy decision. As a professor of classical languages and literature for more than 30 years, I marvel at our insistence on addressing this question as if it were brand new. Centuries ago, myths helped the Greeks learn
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Gun Violence Would Plummet If We Just Called off the Drug War 0
- Politics
- October 17, 2017
With the horrific shooting that recently took place in Las Vegas, debates over gun control have been given center stage in our media and politics once again. And while every pundit seems to have their own surefire way of combatting gun violence, they all gloss over the elephant in the room. Which is, although mass
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Does Morality Depend on Religion?0
- Culture
- October 17, 2017
One of the signature issues defining today’s society is the changing attitudes on religion, God, and traditional Christianity. Evidence of this fluctuation was most recently seen in a Pew survey on morality. According to Pew, respondents were asked whether or not belief in God was necessary in order to live a moral life. As the
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Christina Hoff Sommers Interview: On the ‘monster’ Harvey Weinstein, campus kangaroo courts, and reclaiming feminism 0
- Culture
- October 17, 2017
American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers will be speaking at Intellectual Takeout’s gala on Oct. 30. A graduate of NYU who received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Brandeis University, Sommers joined AEI as the W.H. Brady fellow in 1997. She had previously taught philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Clark University. A best-selling
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Why Celebrities Have a Problem With Monogamy 0
- Culture
- October 16, 2017
If I were Dax Shepard I might be a bit worried right now. His wife, Kristen Bell, of Frozen fame, recently said in an interview, “I’m quite positive we are not meant to be monogamous.” Yikes. She went on to say that her point was that monogamous relationships are hard because they require “a lot
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The Scandalous Truth about Obamacare Is Laid Bare 0
- Economics
- October 16, 2017
It’s not just that Obamacare is financially unsustainable. More seriously, it is intellectually unsustainable, even though this truth has been slow to emerge. This has come to an end with President Trump’s executive order. What does it do? It cuts subsidies to failing providers, yes. It also redefines the meaning of “short term” policies from
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Seven Quick Facts on Vocational Education 1
- Education
- October 16, 2017
It used to be that those who pursued vocational education either in high school or postsecondary education were considered the “dumb students.” Such a mentality, however, appears to be fading from view, particularly as high college costs make those holding vocational degrees – with little to no debt involved – look ever more brilliant. But
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Year-Round Sports: Growing Old and Wearing Thin?0