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  • Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious

    Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious0

    In 1614, when the telescope was new technology, a young man in Germany published a book filled with illustrations of the exciting new things being discovered telescopically: moons circling Jupiter, moon-like phases of Venus, spots on the Sun, the rough and cratered lunar surface. The young man was Johann Georg Locher, and his book was

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  • Mediocrity: The Force Driving Parents to Homeschool?

    Mediocrity: The Force Driving Parents to Homeschool?0

    It’s no secret that homeschooling has been on the rise in the U.S. What’s more surprising, however, is how homeschooling is spreading throughout the United Kingdom… and Saudi Arabia… and other countries as well. The latest news on the homeschooling front suggests that this educational practice is set to gain momentum in another foreign country:

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  • McDonald’s Sacks 70 Accountants, Replaces Them With Foreign Workers

    McDonald’s Sacks 70 Accountants, Replaces Them With Foreign Workers0

    Disney made headlines last year when the company laid off some 250 employees and then required them to train their replacements—immigrants on temporary H-1B visas—if they wanted to receive their severance package. (Two of the former Disney workers are now suing Disney.) McDonald’s, America’s most iconic fast food chain, reportedly has taken a similar course.

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  • Is It Racist To Want Stricter Border Controls?

    Is It Racist To Want Stricter Border Controls?0

    After last week’s post about the potential end of Europe as we know it, today I want to share with you a piece from the New York Times about the reaction of people in Denmark to the rise in Muslim migration there over the last two or so years.  The article interviews a number of

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  • A New Logical Fallacy Is Popping Up

    A New Logical Fallacy Is Popping Up3

    • September 21, 2016

    By now, most of you are familiar with the ad hominem logical fallacy. Latin for “against the man,” it’s the practice of personally attacking one’s opponent rather than his or her argument. In this blog I’d like to introduce a brand new logical fallacy that I frequently see committed today. I have dubbed it the

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  • Why Charles M. Schulz Added a Black Character to the Peanuts Gang

    Why Charles M. Schulz Added a Black Character to the Peanuts Gang1

    On April 15, 1968, Harriet Glickman, a schoolteacher and mother of three, wrote a short letter to cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated less than two weeks before. Much of the momentum of the Civil Right Movement seemed lost. Glickman explained to Schulz that she felt a need to

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  • Watch this 17-Year Old Kid Explain Why He Won’t Go to College

    Watch this 17-Year Old Kid Explain Why He Won’t Go to College0

    You might still believe that college is a great investment for nearly everyone. You might still hold to the view that a great education benefits the student and the whole of society. You might even agree with the politicians who are figuring out how to drive more people into college.  Even if all that is

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  • Telegraph: Down’s Syndrome People Could Soon Face “Extinction”

    Telegraph: Down’s Syndrome People Could Soon Face “Extinction”0

    This week, The Telegraph commented ona trend that’s been apparent for quite some time: about 90% of pregnancies involving a fetus diagnosed with Down’s Syndrome in Britain are aborted. The statistical picture in the U.S. is a bit more complicated, but even with all the academic qualifications, it’s clear that the majority are aborted. Some

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  • Scholar: Schools Are Creating ‘Learned Barbarians’

    Scholar: Schools Are Creating ‘Learned Barbarians’0

    There are two main competing views about human nature in Western civilization. The first and most ancient is the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian view. Mutatis mutandis, it holds that men and women are born with a proclivity toward ignorance, are subject to many harmful passions (e.g. anger, envy, etc.), and need much training and work to

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