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  • Study: Liberals Deny Science just as much as Conservatives

    Study: Liberals Deny Science just as much as Conservatives0

    Liberals often lament that conservatives are “deniers” of this-or-that scientific result, such as evolution or anthropocentric climate change. And there is some truth to this charge. Many Americans who identify as conservatives do deny that most species today originated from earlier ones via natural selection of genetic mutations, or that human carbon emissions have anything

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  • Narcissism: 16 Behavioral Signs Of It

    Narcissism: 16 Behavioral Signs Of It0

    In his classic work The Culture of Narcissism (1979), Christopher Lasch proposed that American culture “gives increasing prominence and encouragement to narcissistic traits.” If Lasch’s thesis is correct—and he makes a very compelling case—then it seems reasonable to assume that many of us might possess narcissistic traits or behaviors, perhaps entirely unbeknownst to ourselves. It

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  • Men are Increasingly ‘Marrying Up’

    Men are Increasingly ‘Marrying Up’0

    Like many men, I married up. And, according to sociologists at the University of Kansas and Texas A&M University, the number of men in my situation are increasing. At least when it comes to marrying up economically. That is because the number of highly educated (and therefore higher earning) women exceed the number of highly

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  • Mel Brooks: Political Correctness is Stupid and Killing Comedy

    Mel Brooks: Political Correctness is Stupid and Killing Comedy0

    There’s a lot of things that have changed since a little thing called “political correctness” pervaded our culture. What you can wear, what you can eat, what you can celebrate… even the history that we teach in school has been influenced by the culture of political correctness. But it’s also hampering another aspect of life

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  • G.K Chesterton, Modern Ethics, and the Anti-Smoking Crusade

    G.K Chesterton, Modern Ethics, and the Anti-Smoking Crusade0

    We’ve all seen them, haven’t we?  I mean those ugly shots of lungs featured in anti-smoking campaigns.  It’s not likely that a cigar-smoking G.K. Chesterton ever caught this particular act.  After all, in his day tobacco was still a century away from achieving its current—and much vaunted—status as the great moral evil of our time. 

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  • Does College Crush the Entrepreneurial Spirit?

    Does College Crush the Entrepreneurial Spirit?0

    The Washington Post recently ran an article about young Lena Geller, a newly enrolled student at George Washington University. Like most freshmen students, Ms. Geller is learning the ins and outs of college life. But as the WaPo explains, she is also learning to juggle her studies with managing her own business as a baker

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