Blog 3 Columns

Student Achievement: Only as Good as the Books Read in English Class?0
- Education
- April 10, 2017
When it comes to improving education, a lot of emphasis is placed upon the STEM subjects: science, math, and the like. Proficiency in such areas, it is argued, is necessary if the U.S. wants its students to be successful on a global scale. Such a supposition may be true; however, new evidence suggests that student
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Pioneer Feminist: Feminism Didn’t Turn Out as Well as We Thought 0
- Culture
- April 10, 2017
A few weeks ago, we brought attention to the recent comments of Fay Weldon, a pioneer in the modern feminist movement. In Weldon’s eyes, today’s women have taken their claim to victimhood a little too far. Weldon has reappeared in the news with more startling statements on her outlook on feminism in retrospect. In an
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Has America’s Middle Class Been Fleeced?0
- Economics
- April 10, 2017
Noah Smith, writing in Bloomberg, says that middle class America has indeed been fleeced by our national economic policies. We agree. But which policies have been responsible? Smith mentions and immediately dismisses trade, immigration, economic regulation, and welfare policies. The real villain in his view is an alleged turn toward managing the economy on free market
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5 Attributes of Thought Leaders 0
- Philosophy
- April 10, 2017
Have you ever asked yourself, what makes someone an entrepreneur of ideas, a so-called thought leader? The ability to invent and spread the word about newfangled concepts? A master of the TED Talk? A magnetic Steve Jobs-like personality? The Marketing Insider Group defines a ‘thought leader’ as someone who “tap[s] into the talent, experience, and
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Why Is War Such a Seductive Illusion?0
- History
- April 7, 2017
Today the US appears to stand on the brink of launching yet another major war, ostensibly out of moral outrage at what is happening in Syria, and allegedly for the sake of human rights, conducted with a completely unjustified sense of certainty that war will produce a better result than diplomacy, trade, and caution. Today
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The Truth About Spider Bites in Australia 0
- International
- April 7, 2017
Recent news reports that a man had both his legs amputated after being bitten by a white-tailed spider have again cast this relatively harmless spider in a negative light. Experts have since said amputations may have been wrongly blamed on a spider bite, and authorities now consider a bacterial infection to be responsible for the
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The Progressive Roots of Fascism 0
- Culture
- April 7, 2017
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini have become, for many of us today, mere Hollywood villains—generic personifications of evil or (in Mussolini’s case) buffoonish authoritarianism. Yet their ideologies were rooted in specific philosophical ideas—ideas which had many respectable adherents in their day. One person who understands this is Jonah Goldberg, author of the 2007 book Liberal
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The High School Kids from Kansas Who Found the Female Schindler 0
- Education
- April 7, 2017
By now you’ve probably heard of the team of high school journalists from Kansas who blew the cover on their new school principal. In brief, the school newspaper team found that the new hire had fake credentials and wasn’t the stellar leader the school had been led to believe. But these kids aren’t the first
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Target CEO: Maybe that Transgender Bathroom Announcement Wasn’t Such a Good Idea After All 0
- Culture
- April 7, 2017
The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday ran a lengthy report in its business section titled “How Target Botched Its Response to the North Carolina Bathroom Law.” The story focused on Target’s controversial decision in April 2016 to publish a blog post responding to North Carolina’s decision to pass a law requiring transgender people to use
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Student Achievement: Only as Good as the Books Read in English Class?0