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The 7 Deadly Sins of Social Media1
- Culture
- November 22, 2016
Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed. ~ Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn (2011) The Atlantic’s Robinson Meyer suggests that Hoffman’s tongue-in-cheek comment from five years ago may contain more than a kernel of truth. Using Dante’s Inferno as a guide, Meyer outlines
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Sorry, There Was No Wave of Trump-Inspired Violence or Hate Crimes0
- Culture
- November 22, 2016
We recently wrote about the Louisiana student who reported that she was attacked by a man in a Donald Trump hat. The story quickly went national, but after a brief questioning by police the woman admitted the story was false. I offered some reasons as to why someone might create such a story, though I’ve
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Prof. Forced to Undergo Psych Evaluation After 2nd Amendment Rant0
- Education
- November 22, 2016
Last week, Campus Reform shared the story of Kevin Allred, an adjunct professor at Rutgers University who was asked to undergo a psychological evaluation after he raised the prospect of shooting white people to make a point on gun control. “Will the Second Amendment be as cool when I buy a gun and start
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JFK’s Assassination Speech Has a Message America Needs to Hear0
- Culture
- November 22, 2016
November 22 marks the anniversary of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas. Although I wasn’t around at that time, I’m well aware that the occasion was as horrifying to my parents’ generation as September 11th was to mine. While reflecting on this anniversary, I came upon the remarks that President Kennedy was supposed to make that
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How the Desire for ‘Moral Purity’ Divides Us0
- Culture
- November 22, 2016
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, the overwhelming response among progressives was “how in the world did this happen?” Those of us who study the rise of political and moral polarization in the United States, however, were less surprised. Think of the people you choose to spend time with – your romantic partner,
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization0
- Education
- November 21, 2016
Christianity. Judaism. Dead white males. Old-fashioned morality. The traditional family. Tradition itself. These are the bêtes noires of the elites. They are the pillars of political incorrectness. Together, they constitute that thing called Western civilization. Political correctness, at its heart, is the effort to dissolve the foundation on which American and European culture has been built. It
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Should Schools Be Teaching Public Speaking?1
- Culture
- November 21, 2016
I recently had a discussion with a gentleman about his granddaughter. Although she was only seven, she had no difficulty speaking with any adult whom she came in contact with. Her grandfather said it was because of the regular public speaking practice she was given in her local homeschool group. Her speaking ability, this gentleman
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Homeschool Kid Becomes Youngest in Canadian Parliament0
- Education
- November 21, 2016
The last few weeks have found us fixated on U.S. politics and the ascension of Donald Trump to the office of president. But in all this hoopla, we missed another surprising election result that occurred just north of the border. According to last week’s Toronto Star: “Sam Oosterhoff just became one of Ontario’s highest paid
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An Ad You Would Never See Today0
- November 21, 2016
Today, all fifty states in the U.S. have passed some form of anti-bullying legislation, and many school districts and colleges have extensive campaigns attempting to reduce it. Bullying is an unfortunate rite of passage that many of us have been subjected to at one point in our lives. But in the past two decades, the
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