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Our Culture Degrades Women by Trying to Make Them Men0
- Culture
- March 8, 2017
In preparation for the 2017 International Women’s Day, the UN Secretary-General dutifully declared his devotion to women’s rights and equality, saying: “Women’s rights are human rights. … Empowering women and girls is the only way to protect their rights and make sure they can realize their full potential.” Undoubtedly, the Secretary-General is well-meaning and sincerely
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Middlebury Riot Shows the Veneer of Our Civilization is Thin0
- Culture
- March 8, 2017
On March 2, there was one of those oh-so-revealing events that makes people realize that very bad trends are at work in America, trends that are corroding the essence of civilization. Middlebury College in Vermont is a liberal arts school. The prolific author and American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray was asked to speak at
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Hoop Earrings No Longer Politically Correct for White Girls1
- Culture
- March 8, 2017
It’s a hard thing to keep up to date in these days where political correctness reigns supreme. After all, one never can tell when one might be guilty of a microaggression or a cultural appropriation. Such was the case recently at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. As the Claremont Independent reports, white female students were
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Do Top Spending States Get Better Educational Results?0
- Economics
- March 8, 2017
Previously, we highlighted a recent Department of Education report which found that New York, the District of Columbia, and Alaska are some of the highest spending states in the nation when it comes to education. Each one spends well over $18,000 per student per year. But aren’t those big bucks worth it? After all, the
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Which States Spend the Most Per Student?0
- Economics
- March 7, 2017
When it comes to choosing a place to live, most parents select their home with a wary eye cast toward the schools the neighborhood offers. Although it’s not often uttered outright, conventional wisdom suggests that the more expensive your neighborhood – or the more property taxes you pay – the better the schools. But schools
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The Virtues of Learning to Sew0
- Culture
- March 7, 2017
I find myself feeling nostalgic these days. My kids are growing up in a different world than the one I knew at their age. My childhood encompassed a time before personal computers, cell phones, and the internet. We had five channels on the television—my family lived so far out of town that we didn’t have
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The College Textbook Racket0
- Culture
- March 7, 2017
The business of selling college textbooks is a racket. As Ernie Smith of Atlas Obscura notes, it has a long history. Every academic year a new edition of practically every college textbook is released by the publisher. The prices of college textbooks are horrendously high, sometimes in excess of $200. Since textbooks are required reading
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Scholar: White Guilt is Responsible for Our Toxic Politics0
- Culture
- March 7, 2017
AP released a poll this week showing that Americans are deeply divided. Those seeking to better understand why might consider reading Shelby Steele’s recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. Steele, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, argues that “white guilt” has created in the American system “a mock politics based on the pretense
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Lost in the Gender Twilight Zone0
- Culture
- March 7, 2017
Taylor Beggs is a female wrestler in Texas who is “transitioning” to a male. She recently won the state girls wresting championship to the dismay of many of the other girls competing, some of whom dropped out rather than face someone with a competitive advantage. The process in which a person “transitions” from one gender
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