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  • Logic is More Important than Ever – So Why Don’t Schools Teach it Anymore?

    Logic is More Important than Ever – So Why Don’t Schools Teach it Anymore?2

    One of the great ironies of our age is that schools have stopped teaching logic in an age when it’s more necessary than ever. We live in a time defined by vast information, mass marketing, and propaganda. It’s been 70 years since Dorothy Sayers observed that by teaching young men and women to read but

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  • If Infanticide is Wrong, is Abortion Wrong?

    If Infanticide is Wrong, is Abortion Wrong?0

    Should we abandon arguments for abortion if they also permit infanticide? Two US-based academics say “yes”. In a new paper in the journal Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, philosophers David and Rose Hershenov suggest that non-conscious fetuses and minimally conscious neonates are morally equivalent in their fundamental interests, namely, their shared interest in “healthy development”. Insofar as

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  • Do Children Really Need ‘More Rigorous’ Pre-Schools?

    Do Children Really Need ‘More Rigorous’ Pre-Schools?0

    My grandmother taught kindergarten. In the ‘40s, before her own baby boomer children arrived, she spent weekday mornings singing ABCs and writing 123s with neighborhood children in the living room of her small suburban home. Kindergarten back then was very different from today. For one, it was fun. For another, it was part-time and low-key.

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  • Why Vegetarians Should Be Prepared to Bend Their Own Rules

    Why Vegetarians Should Be Prepared to Bend Their Own Rules0

    It’s a common enough scenario. A vegetarian has been invited to a friend’s place for dinner. The host forgets that the guest is a vegetarian, and places a pork chop in front of her. What is she to do? Probably her initial feelings will be disgust and repulsion. Vegetarians often develop these sorts of attitudes

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  • Survey: Parents are Clueless about the Poor Education Their Children are Receiving

    Survey: Parents are Clueless about the Poor Education Their Children are Receiving0

    There’s a longstanding mystery when it comes to the relationship between America’s schools and the parents who send their children to them. Evidences of this mystery have been apparent in a running Gallup poll which asks Americans to rate public schools. On a national level, Americans think public schools stink. Criticism decreases considerably, however, when

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  • Is Exorcism Real?

    Is Exorcism Real?0

    Experts say exorcism is “thriving” in the United States in recent decades, which is perhaps what prompted CNN to profile an academic regarded as one of the world’s foremost authorities on exorcism. Dr. Richard Gallagher, an Ivy League-educated psychiatrist who teaches at Columbia, is the man exorcists call when they need help. Here is a brief

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  • I Don’t Want Anyone Forced to Bake Me a Cake

    I Don’t Want Anyone Forced to Bake Me a Cake0

    Being a gay libertarian is like being a black conservative: you are a pariah among your peers. It couldn’t be clearer in the Charlie Craig and David Mullins V. Masterpiece Cakeshop case, which the Supreme Court will hear soon. Back in 2012, the plaintiffs went to the defendant’s bakery to have a cake for their

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  • Engineering Programs Are Now Teaching Social Justice

    Engineering Programs Are Now Teaching Social Justice0

    We engineers like to solve technical problems. That’s the way we think, that’s why we chose our major, that’s why we got into and stayed in engineering. There are several other reasons why we got into engineering. One of them was the absence of what I describe here as “social engineering,” where the professor/instructor is interested not

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  • Are Most Christians Today Not Really Christians?

    Are Most Christians Today Not Really Christians?1

    Thomas Jefferson was a deist that believed the ultimate value of Christianity was in its ethical teachings. So he famously created his own Bible by literally cutting and pasting passages from the Gospels that agreed with his doctrine and omitting those passages (such as the miracles and mentions of the supernatural) that conflicted with it.

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