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  • Students Are Clueless About the Holocaust

    Students Are Clueless About the Holocaust0

    September 30th marks the birthday of famed author and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel. (Pictured above on the second row from the bottom, seventh from the left.) Wiesel, best known for his memoir Night, was born in 1928 and introduced to the horrors of the Nazi death camps at age 15. His year-long experience in places

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  • Student Officially Changes Personal Pronoun to ‘His Majesty’

    Student Officially Changes Personal Pronoun to ‘His Majesty’0

    In an effort to foster “an environment of inclusiveness,” the University of Michigan recently adopted a policy allowing students to choose their own ‘personal pronoun.’ The policy appears to be an effort to accommodate transgender students. “Asking about and correctly using someone’s designated pronoun is one of the most basic ways to show your respect

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  • Should Female Chess Champions Be Forced to Wear a Hijab?

    Should Female Chess Champions Be Forced to Wear a Hijab?0

    About a year ago, I wrote about my interest in learning to play chess. This interest came about after reading Ben Franklin’s arguments on the skills the sport builds, including foresight, caution, and perseverance. Had I learned to play last year, I undoubtedly would have soared to the top and been eligible for next year’s

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  • Plutarch’s 3 Tips for Choosing a School

    Plutarch’s 3 Tips for Choosing a School1

    Today’s education world is full of options. In fact, there are so many options that it can be tempting for parents to throw up their hands and just pick one without much thought. But such is a terrible move, according to the ancient Roman author Plutarch. He suggests the following three steps in choosing an

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  • How Coffee Drinking Helped Advance Women’s Rights

    How Coffee Drinking Helped Advance Women’s Rights0

    In 18th century Europe, many products and services reached a newly emergent middle class for the first time in human history. The capitalist age was maturing, and that meant that average people had money for the first time and lots of choices on how to spend it. One of the new products they could buy

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  • Prof: Kids are Not Learning Anything

    Prof: Kids are Not Learning Anything0

    Ask British professor Dennis Hayes how government-run schools are doing and he would say they’re in bad shape. As he recently explained to The Independent, “the kids are basically not learning anything,” largely because the schools “confuse information with knowledge.” But Hayes isn’t simply bashing the schools without offering solutions. According to him, reintroducing subjects

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