Blog 3 Columns

‘Hate Facts’ – Yes, People Are Now Using That Term 0
- Culture
- July 18, 2017
It’s commonly said that a fact is what’s expressible by a statement that is “proven” to be true—e.g. statements such as “2+2=4” and “the Pacific is the earth’s largest ocean”—whereas opinions lack proof even when they happen to be true. Yet in an era when more and more reality is weaponized for political purposes, the
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Why the Devil Loves Democracy 0
- Education
- July 17, 2017
It may surprise many that C.S. Lewis, the beloved author of The Chronicles of Narnia, has some some interesting takes on topics like unselfishness and democracy. Although a Christian apologist, Lewis, like Ayn Rand, believes unselfishness is a vice, not a virtue, and he skewers democracy for its pandering to the average, for its leveling effect, and
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Where Have All the Children Gone?0
- Culture
- July 17, 2017
It’s summer vacation, but you might not know it from the absence of children on streets and sidewalks, in parks and public spaces. Just as afternoons and weekends during the school year are more void of children than ever before, so too is summertime. Where are all of these young ones? Increasingly, they are contained
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U.S. Is One Generation Away from a Greece-Like Debt Crisis 0
- Economics
- July 17, 2017
While Congressional Republicans bicker over tweaks to the Affordable Care Act, the federal debt prepares to pass the $20 trillion mark. That might sound like a lot, but it’s small potatoes compared to what lay ahead. The CBO projects the debt to balloon to $92 trillion by 2047. What is driving this debt surge? The
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The Failure to Repeal Obamacare Is an Intellectual Failure 0
- Politics
- July 17, 2017
Absolutely amazing. Even tragic. The Republicans railed against the proven failure that is Obamacare for years and voted at least half a dozen times to repeal it. It was the most important issue of the entire 2016 election. Then the GOP gained control – House, Senate, Presidency – and what happened? So far, nothing. There is no
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School District Nixes Homework for Thousands of Students as Expert Says It’s Basically Useless 0
- Culture
- July 17, 2017
The anti-homework trend is growing. It started with the teacher from Texas who banned homework from her second grade class, encouraging families to spend time reading, playing, and eating together instead. It spread to a New Jersey elementary school, where the principal and his teaching staff voted to be homework free for the 2016-2017 school
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College Students Love Socialism… But Don’t Have a Clue What it Means 0
- Culture
- July 17, 2017
In an article written last month for the New York Times, 29-year-old Sarah Leonard suggested that millennials are turning to socialism in droves. The reason, she opined, is that capitalism has let them down: “Across Europe and the United States, millennials are worse off than their parents were and are too poor to start new
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‘Study History’—Defense Secretary’s Advice to Anxious Americans 0
- History
- July 17, 2017
Last month, The Washington Post accidentally leaked Defense Secretary James Mattis’ personal cellphone number. Teddy Fischer—an enterprising 17-year-old journalist at Mercer Island High School (WA)—used the opportunity to text Mattis and request an interview for his high school newspaper. Surprisingly, Mattis granted the request, and the interview was recently published on the school newspaper’s website.
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Why Conservatives Should Care More about Cities 0
- History
- July 14, 2017
It’s a time-honoured tradition in America, since the days of Jefferson and even before, to decry the evils of city life. One sees a great deal of this tradition in modern conservative discourse. Small-town America is the ‘real America’, the unpretentious, authentic, hardworking America with healthy values, and the big cities are full of crime
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‘Hate Facts’ – Yes, People Are Now Using That Term 0