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How to Break the Deadbeat Dad Cycle0
- Culture
- January 26, 2017
Celebrities may deny it. Feminists may lead us to believe otherwise. But the fact of the matter is, children do much better in life when they have a father to guide them through it. In fact, research shows that children with an active father experience better physical and mental health, better development, and better behavior
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Harvard Article from 1863 Offers 3 Simple Rules for Reading0
- Culture
- January 26, 2017
We all know how important reading is. It benefits relationships. It builds language development. And reading books has even been found to lengthen one’s life. Such knowledge causes many of us to be aghast at the fact that more than one in four Americans didn’t read a book last year. But what about those
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Fact Check: Do 74% of Californians Really Oppose Sanctuary Cities?0
- Culture
- January 26, 2017
This morning, a friend sent me a story from a right-wing news site. It claimed that “74 percent of Californians want to end sanctuary cities.” The statistic didn’t seem to smell right. Seventy-four percent of Californians? The state in which Donald Trump won 33 percent of the vote? The poll ostensibly had been conducted by
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Are We Already Fighting the 2nd Civil War?0
- Culture
- January 26, 2017
The possibility of another American civil war is something that many raise as a topic of interest, but usually dismiss as remote. But in his most recent column, conservative pundit Dennis Prager goes so far as to say that “America is currently fighting its Second Civil War”: “In fact, with the obvious and enormous
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3 Must-Read Books on the West’s Abandonment of Religion0
- Philosophy
- January 26, 2017
What happens when the religious beliefs that undergird a culture are pulled out from under it, as has happened in the West? There is a whole literature on exactly this question: 1. Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton. Chesterton was the greatest thinker of the twentieth century and this was his greatest book (with the possible exception of
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Think For Yourself: How to Reject the Team Mentality of Politics0
- Culture
- January 25, 2017
The wildly contentious election of 2016 seems to have inculcated certain habits of mind. We are tempted to believe that our role as citizens is like that of a sports fan. We need to choose a team and stick with it, no matter what. Our team needs us. If we lend our voices in support
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Progressive Columnist: Riots Are Hurting Our Cause0
- Culture
- January 25, 2017
Donald Trump has only been in office a short time, but the speed with which he is reversing Obama’s policies and blazing his own path is enough to make the heads of liberals and conservatives spin. Headlines are indicating that the former group is in an especial state of shock, particularly given the various protests
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Love or Hate the Term ‘Snowflake’? Thank ‘Fight Club’0
- Culture
- January 25, 2017
I’ve probably seen Fight Club 40 times. A friend whom I lived with in college had a sort of obsession with the film. Yet I somehow failed to make the connection between Fight Club and the term “snowflake.” Here it is: “You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same
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It’s called the Executive Branch0
- Education
- January 25, 2017
In 2010, less than 25% of high school seniors in America were considered proficient in civics according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Even worse, in 2010 only 12% of high school seniors were proficient in history. Perhaps those numbers explain the unwarranted hand-wringing taking place today regarding President Trump’s supposed “gagging” or “censorship”
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