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Student’s Explanation on How He Aced the ACT Shows What Education is Missing0
- Culture
- October 19, 2017
The average ACT score has sloped downwards in recent years as more students have been encouraged to take the test. In spite of this decline, there are still a handful of students who manage to nail a perfect score. One of the most recent is Louisiana teen Joshua Owens. When asked to explain the secret
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Sex-Change Operations Will Be ‘One of the Great Medical Blunders of the 21st Century,’ Predicts Former Transgender Male0
- Culture
- October 19, 2017
A friend of mine recently returned from living in Africa for several years. While catching up with one another, she commented that the biggest change she noticed in coming home was the prevalence of transgenderism. My friend is right. Transgenderism has catapulted to popularity in the last few years, statistics show. But while many transgender
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A Historian Explains Why America Will Probably Fail0
- History
- October 19, 2017
The English author Paul Johnson opens his book A History of the American People (1997) by calling the United States “the greatest of all human adventures.” While clearly a fan of America’s grand experiment, Johnson nonetheless expressed some doubt about whether the nation could succeed beyond the 20th century because of its dark past, which included
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Trial By Ordeal Was Actually an Effective Test of Guilt0
- History
- October 18, 2017
The quest for criminal justice is fraught with uncertainty. Did the defendant commit the crime, or is he a victim of incriminating circumstances? Is he guilty as charged, or has he been charged guilty by an overzealous prosecutor? Unsure about the truth, we often end up guessing ‘He did it’ when he might not have,
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The Problem with the ‘Me Too’ Campaign0
- Culture
- October 18, 2017
“Me too.” If your social media feeds have been filled with your friends writing this phrase, you may be wondering exactly what’s going on. You can blame Alyssa Milano. On Sunday the actress tweeted: “Suggested by a friend: If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me too’ as a status,
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Should Moms Work or Stay at Home?0
- Culture
- October 18, 2017
A while back, I asked what seemed to be a taboo question, namely, “Do men secretly want stay-at-home wives?” According to the responses and other polling, the answer to that question leans strongly in the affirmative direction. Other data suggest that women would answer a question about whether they secretly wanted to be stay-at-home wives
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Indoctrination Has Always Been the Goal of Progressive Education0
- Culture
- October 18, 2017
In recent years, many Americans have adopted the idea that public education is neutral ground. Such a mentality has undoubtedly sprung from the fact that the public school is the agent of the government, an entity which strives to keep itself clear from sectarian, political, or other ideological viewpoints. But in recent years, the falsity
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Economist: A ‘Great Reset’ is Coming to America0
- Economics
- October 18, 2017
Americans have become afraid of change. That’s the seemingly counterintuitive observation of Tyler Cowen’s newly released book, The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Change. Cowen is an economics professor at George Mason University who runs perhaps the most popular economics blog in the world, Marginal Revolution. Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping
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College Professor Under Siege for Challenging Transgender Orthodoxy0
- Education
- October 18, 2017
A Boise State University professor recently learned what happens when you challenge left-wing social narratives on college campuses. Scott Yenor, a tenured professor, has been under siege on campus after publishing articles with The Heritage Foundation and The Daily Signal about feminism and the transgender movement. In those articles, Yenor explained the similarity in philosophy
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