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  • Students Reject Everyone-Gets-a-Trophy Mentality

    Students Reject Everyone-Gets-a-Trophy Mentality0

    Many have fallen prey to the everyone-gets-a-trophy mentality in recent years. After all, one must never hurt the feelings of precious little flowers who might not be as talented as their peers! One of the latest victims bitten by this bug is the revered Cambridge University in Great Britain. According to The Telegraph, Cambridge’s tradition

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  • Spending a $100 Million a Year to Pay Teachers to Do Nothing

    Spending a $100 Million a Year to Pay Teachers to Do Nothing0

    The New York Post ran a story Sunday about a man who was suing New York City. He wasn’t after money (he’s making $94,000 a year). He was suing to be allowed to earn his money. David Suker, 48, is one of hundreds of teachers in the Absent Teacher Reserve. He gets paid to show

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  • Seeing the Lamp by the Light of the Tree

    Seeing the Lamp by the Light of the Tree0

    Yesterday evening, on my way home from the gym, I found myself waiting at a stoplight. Not being one who feels the urgency to check for text messages at every available moment, I ignored the handheld device which, in any event, I hadn’t bothered to bring with me, and looked about me. At such moments,

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  • Notre Dame Prof: America Can’t Be Saved; It Must Be Re-Founded

    Notre Dame Prof: America Can’t Be Saved; It Must Be Re-Founded0

    A poll this past summer showed that 79% of Americans believe their country is headed in the wrong direction. Patrick Deneen, a well-respected Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, is one of them. However, the reason he believes America is in decline is unique. Most people—“conservatives” especially—typically accept the narrative that

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  • Not Sure How to Vote? Try John Adams’ Advice.

    Not Sure How to Vote? Try John Adams’ Advice.0

    As summer comes to a close and autumn shows its face, the time for election season to kick into high gear has (finally) arrived. Where people fall on the political spectrum and the candidate they vote for is often influenced by the steady stream of information they get from the media. But as a number

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  • John Dewey and the Progressive Case for Homeschooling

    John Dewey and the Progressive Case for Homeschooling1

    The philosopher and public intellectual John Dewey (1859-1952) is widely known among progressive K-12 educators, education policy gurus, and university education faculty for such groundbreaking ideas as learning-by-doing, inquiry-driven curricula and the democratic classroom. If you want to upset these Dewey fanboys and girls, tell them that John Dewey was an apologist for homeschooling. In

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  • Daylight Savings Time Isn’t Worth the Trouble it Causes

    Daylight Savings Time Isn’t Worth the Trouble it Causes0

    Today the sun is shining during my commute home from work. But this weekend, public service announcements will remind us to “fall back,” ending daylight saving time (DST) by setting our clocks an hour earlier on Sunday, Nov. 6. On Nov. 7, many of us will commute home in the dark. This semiannual ritual shifts

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  • Carl Schmitt: The Philosopher of Conflict

    Carl Schmitt: The Philosopher of Conflict0

    Now to Heidegger’s friend and colleague Carl Schmitt, who had also attacked liberalism incessantly before the Nazi period, enthusiastically served the Nazi state, and then brooded after the defeat and spent decades developing and promulgating anti-libertarian thinking across the political spectrum. Carl Schmitt was a German legal theorist whose book, The Concept of the Political, came to

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  • Can You Name America’s First Presidents?

    Can You Name America’s First Presidents?0

    It was recently reported that many college students don’t know that Thomas Jefferson was once the president. That thought is particularly alarming when we consider that those same students will likely be choosing the nation’s forty-fifth president in tomorrow’s election. One has to wonder how many other voters are in the same boat when it

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