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The Intellectual Roots of Martin Luther King Jr.0
- Culture
- January 13, 2017
It’s typical of the progressive cast of our culture to focus on the forward-looking at the expense of the traditional—or if you prefer, to miss the traditional elements that lie at the heart of a genuinely progressive movement. So it is that in celebrating the accomplishments of Martin Luther King, Jr., his connection to the
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Populism Has Finally Beat Progressivism0
- History
- January 13, 2017
With a Trump presidency at hand an inescapable historical irony deserves to be noted. If there was a time in our history—and there was—when progressivism bested populism, this is a moment when populism has returned the favor. To be sure, the populism of today is not exactly the same version of populism that the progressives
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Penn State Offers Free Psych Counseling as Trump Inauguration Nears0
- Culture
- January 13, 2017
Safe spaces, trigger warnings, participation awards and now pre-presidential inauguration coddling. The Daily Collegian reports that Pennsylvania State University is offering students free psychological and counseling services “in this time of transition.” Yes, you heard it right, folks: Penn State is launching a special campaign to help millennial students cope with the stress, anxiety and
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No, Not Everyone Is Entitled to Their Opinion2
- Education
- January 13, 2017
It’s commonly believed today that “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.” What nonsense. Where does this “entitlement” regarding opinions come from? Who has bestowed it? The statement is a decidedly modern one. No person until very recently in history would have dreamed of saying something so silly. It’s usually attributed to the American financier
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MLK’s Nobel Peace Prize Speech0
- Education
- January 13, 2017
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s relentless commitment to peace resulted in an extraordinary honor. On Oct. 14, 1964 the Georgia-born minister became the youngest person to ever win the award, which he received for his nonviolent resistance to racial oppression. Two months later, King, who donated the $54,123 Nobel Prize money to the civil rights
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Millennials Who Borrowed Money to Get a Degree Got Destroyed (See Chart)0
- Culture
- January 13, 2017
If there’s one generation that has become the scapegoat for the nation’s problems, it’s the millennials. They don’t get married and start families. They live in mom’s basement and don’t buy their own house. They drift from job to job and school to school trying to find their “passion.” In short, they can’t “adult.” But
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Is it Rational to Fear Corporations More than Governments?0
- Culture
- January 13, 2017
I recently had a delightful discussion with a friend who is a physician—we’ll call her Kortney—about the Affordable Care Act. I’ve long been skeptical of the idea that the federal government could create an efficient and affordable consumer marketplace for healthcare, a notoriously complicated and expansive system that touches many industries. Recent developments, I said,
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Yearning for Good, Old-Fashioned Paganism0
- Culture
- January 12, 2017
Although I confess that I’m a Christian, I pine sometimes for some good old fashioned paganism. Not the nonsense of the neo-pagans who have about as much in common with the real McCoy as a divorcee has with a virgin (to employ C. S. Lewis’ slap-in-the-face analogy), or, to move from the shockingly sublime to
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U.S. Judge: Administrators Turning Colleges into ‘Surveillance States’0
- Culture
- January 12, 2017
Early last year, the Higher Education Research Institute released their annual survey on the attitudes and ideas of college freshman. Not surprisingly, the survey mirrored events we’ve seen breaking out on campuses across the nation, namely, little tolerance for viewpoints differing from those of students. In fact, more than 70 percent of college freshmen in
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