Blog 3 Columns

The U.S. Has the Fattest Poor People in the World. Why?0
- Culture
- May 5, 2017
Recent reports show that the United States is one of the most obese nations in the world—the only G-8 nation to crack the top 20 of the most overweight countries in the world. For children and low-income people the problem is particularly acute. A 2015 report commission by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
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Physician: Raising Happy Kids Shouldn’t Be the Main Goal 0
- Culture
- May 5, 2017
In the years when I spent a good deal of time sitting beside the piano, coaching kids of all ages to count, to curve their fingers, and to phrase their music properly, I heard a common refrain over and over. That refrain was often uttered by the parent of the child, and went something like
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Moral Outrage as Compensation for Guilt: An Explanation for 21st Century Campus Violence 0
- Culture
- May 5, 2017
The worst American campus violence since my college days at the University of Michigan in the late 60s and early 70s begs the question: Why? It’s not just the violence at places like Berkeley and Middlebury, but also students’ increasingly aggressive demands to keep conservative speakers away, create safe spaces, publish trigger warnings, and protect
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MIT Is Making Kid-Friendly Communist Propaganda 0
- Education
- May 5, 2017
In order to make the deadliest ideology of the 20th century palatable to young Americans, “Communism for Kids” is coming to a bookstore near you. This newly released book from MIT Press “proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism.” The death toll from communist regimes
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Gender Equality is Basically a Farce, Study Suggests 0
- Culture
- May 5, 2017
There’s a big trend these days for individuals to challenge the preconceived – and allegedly outdated – lens through which they view society. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the differences between the genders. Gender, we are told, is a social construct. As such, there is really no difference between the male and female
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Why is Humility Important?0
- Culture
- May 4, 2017
An awful lot of people in this world are really puffed up about themselves. One of the character traits I wish were much more widely practiced these days is good old-fashioned humility. T. S. Eliot said, “Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well
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Is NPR Pushing Propaganda about the Benefits of Preschool?0
- Education
- May 4, 2017
The other day, NPR published an article on the benefits of Pre-K education. Highlighting a recent consensus statement on preschool released by The Brookings Institute, the article went bonkers on social media, presumably because of the following announcement: “Some of the nation’s top researchers who’ve spent their careers studying early childhood education recently got together
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Is John F. Kennedy Responsible for the Alt-Right?0
- History
- May 4, 2017
JFK and the Masculine Mystique: Sex and Power on the New Frontier, is a powerful and incisive new book about men. Written by Steven Watts, the book combines thorough research, penetrating analysis, and graceful prose. One of the more intriguing arguments in the book is that Kennedy was responsible for unmooring traditional values due to
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Arizona Lawmaker Urges End to Compulsory Schooling 0
- Education
- May 4, 2017
Most Americans agree that an educated citizenry is a priority for a thriving democracy. In fact, the first compulsory education statute was passed in Massachusetts Bay Colony not long after the Pilgrims arrived. In 1642, that first compulsory education law prioritized childhood literacy, but it placed the responsibility on parents to educate their children. It
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The U.S. Has the Fattest Poor People in the World. Why?0