Blog 3 Columns

Millennials and Their Paradoxical Relationship with Marriage 0
- Culture
- June 9, 2017
Marriage rates in the United States and most other developed countries continue to decline, and some question whether today’s young adults have given up on marriage. In a book due out next month, family researchers Drs Brian Willoughby and Spencer James of Brigham Young University, assure us that the vast majority of Millennials do value
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Justice Department: No More Bankrolling of Liberal Activists 0
- Politics
- June 9, 2017
On June 5, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions prohibited Justice Department lawyers from diverting legal settlement funds to special interest groups outside the government that were neither victims of any wrongdoing, nor parties to such lawsuits. As legal commentator Walter Olson notes, “This is terrific news and a major step forward in [respecting] the constitutional
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BBC Reporter’s False Trump Tweet Reveals a Sad Truth 0
- Culture
- June 9, 2017
Winston Churchill once quipped that “a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” One wonders what Churchill would have thought about the age of social media, when a falsehood can quite literally make laps around the world before the truth can even find pants.
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These 13 Counties Started Work Requirements for Food Stamps. Here’s What Happened.0
- Economics
- June 8, 2017
Participation in the food stamp program plunged by 85 percent in 13 counties in Alabama after officials required that recipients must work, look for work, or get approved job training, a state agency says. In those 13 counties, enrollment in food stamps dropped over four months from 5,538 able-bodied adults without dependents to 831 such
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The Importance of Chesterton, Tolkien and Lewis 0
- Education
- June 8, 2017
[Editor’s Note: Joseph Pearce recently granted the following interview to The Whetstone, a student newspaper of Montreal College, North Carolina.] What do you see as your role, your calling, and how does it correlate with your work as a scholar? I am trying to serve as a cultural catalyst, evangelizing the wider culture with the beauty of
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The Afghanistan Quagmire Never Ends. Why?0
- International
- June 8, 2017
What exactly is the US military doing in Afghanistan? I’m hardly alone in wondering. The confusion is so widespread that opposition has bled into public indifference. After a decade and a half – six years longer than the US had troops in Vietnam – it’s just something we do. What we are doing and
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Less Schooling, More Apprenticeships 0
- Education
- June 8, 2017
Apprenticeships first appeared in the later Middle Ages as an opportunity for young people, usually between the ages of 10 and 15, to gain practical skills and on-the-job training from a master craftsman. These adolescent apprentices came of age immersed in authentic experiences and surrounded by adult mentors. The term “adolescence” comes from the
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Lemonade Stands Legalized in Utah 0
- Culture
- June 8, 2017
Summer is almost officially here, which means parents all over the country will soon be losing their minds trying to figure out how to occupy their children for three whole months. In the American tradition, the summer months have always been a time to teach the next generation about hard work and responsibility. Older children
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‘Chatting with dolphins by 2021’: Why it’s not going to happen 0
- Philosophy
- June 8, 2017
Every couple of months comes a story about some animal that has been trained to talk. But a little research always reveals that the animal involved might be able to learn to put a few words together but never that it communicates the way humans do. Hoover the seal could say, “Get outta here!”; Blackie
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Millennials and Their Paradoxical Relationship with Marriage 0