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
READ MOREWe 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
READ MOREThomas 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.
READ MOREI’ve been fascinated with the concept of the one-room school ever since I watched television episodes of Little House on the Prairie in my preschool years. Admittedly, my early fascination stemmed from the romanticism of wanting to be like Laura Ingalls. But as I grew older and that romanticism faded, the interest in one-room schools
READ MOREPlanned Parenthood has 56 independent local affiliates that operate more than 600 centers across the country. According to Planned Parenthood’s most recent annual report, 41 percent ($555 million) of the organization’s revenue comes from government reimbursements and grants. Planned Parenthood is also the nation’s largest abortion provider, performing more than 320,000 abortions a year — more than 30
READ MOREAbout 15 years ago, when I was in graduate school, a roommate of mine watched in horror as I salted a slice of pizza. He was a medical student, and many intelligent educators and textbooks had instructed him on the dangers of table salt. “Do you know what that salt is doing to your body?”
READ MORETo many Americans, high school seems like a normal part of life. To not attend is unheard of; to fail to graduate is a death sentence for one’s future. But what we often forget is that the modern high school is a relatively new concept. As Paul Beston notes in a recent article for City
READ MOREWriting is virtually part of everything we do. It is one of the most powerful tools used to communicate our knowledge, emotions and beliefs, across distance and time. Writing is also a fundamental part of the school curriculum as an outcome and as a means to demonstrate learning across subjects and grades. However, the writing
READ MOREThere are growing fears about the future of Western Civilization. It’s becoming clearer to the American and European public that most of its schools, churches, and media outlets do not care a lick for preserving the intellectual treasures and moral principles of their culture’s past, and are even inculcating a disdain for all things Western.
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