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  • 4 Ways to Avoid Being Fooled By Propaganda

    4 Ways to Avoid Being Fooled By Propaganda0

    We live in a society where propaganda is hurled at us nearly every waking hour. One need only recall the last election to verify that such a statement is true.  Unfortunately, the vast majority of the public is ill-equipped to deal with this propaganda. This is because, as former University of Chicago professor Richard Weaver

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  • Teaching Chess to Kids Spurs Academic Achievement

    Teaching Chess to Kids Spurs Academic Achievement0

    Over the weekend, 60 Minutes featured an unusual story about the small, backwoods area of Franklin County, Mississippi. Like much of Mississippi, Franklin County isn’t exactly known for its wealth or educational excellence. But that may be changing, particularly in regards to the latter, thanks to a man known as Dr. Jeff Bulington. According to

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  • Surgeons in Canada are Harvesting Organs from Euthanised Patients

    Surgeons in Canada are Harvesting Organs from Euthanised Patients0

    Taking advantage of the country’s new law, Canadian transplant surgeons have harvested organs from dozens of euthanasia patients. According to the National Post, 26 people in Ontario who died by lethal injection have donated tissue or organs. This involved mostly corneas, skin, heart valves, bones and tendons. The National Post’s report only covered Ontario. Bioethicists,

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  • Steve Bannon: Not a Fan of Limited Government

    Steve Bannon: Not a Fan of Limited Government0

    Writing in The New York Times Magazine about last week’s stillborn RyanCare bill, Robert Draper recalls a conversation he had with White House strategist Stephen Bannon earlier this year. Bannon, lamenting the ability of both congressional Democrats and Republicans to get things done, contrasts the identity-obsessed progressives with the one-trick pony conservatives: What’s that Dostoyevsky line: Happy families

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  • Six Graphs that Reveal Big Problems for Student and Auto Loans0

    The New York Fed’s most recent household debt report showed ballooning debt and delinquency in student and auto loans. Total household debt has just about reached its previous late-2008 high of over $12.5 trillion.

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  • Milton Friedman on ‘the Major Fault of the Collectivist Philosophy’

    Milton Friedman on ‘the Major Fault of the Collectivist Philosophy’0

    Economist and University of Chicago professor Milton Friedman (1912 – 2006) spent more than 30 years teaching, and won the Nobel Prize in 1976 for his contributions in the field of economics. He was also one of the first intellectuals to see cracks forming in 20th-century collectivism. In his 1951 essay “Neo-Liberalism and its Prospects,”

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  • How Colleges Drag Out Degree Programs Longer than Necessary

    How Colleges Drag Out Degree Programs Longer than Necessary0

    In recent years, a growing number of colleges have been rolling out accelerated 3-year degree plans. New York University is one of the latest and most prestigious to do so. According to Inside Higher Ed, the move comes in an effort to trim costs and make college more affordable for students: “New York University unveiled

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  • Companies Want to Teach Your Children Values

    Companies Want to Teach Your Children Values0

    About ten years ago Dove released a short film with the slogan “talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does”. It warned of the detrimental effects of unrealistic body image expectations communicated to young girls through advertisements. Reading this article in The Atlantic, I couldn’t help but agree that in recent times advertisers have even

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  • 3 Ways to Spot an Ideologue

    3 Ways to Spot an Ideologue1

    In 1960, Daniel Bell’s book The End of Ideology was published. In it, he declared what “sensible” people like himself already knew: Ideological commitments are mere barriers to social progress. Incremental improvements in technology, entrepreneurship and new methods of governance, not endless debates between capitalists and socialists, liberals and conservatives, fascists and communists, would mark

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