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Report: College Students Spend Only 2.8 Hrs Per Day on Their Education0
- Education
- July 27, 2016
A report released last week by the Heritage Foundation shows that full-time college students spend less than three hours per day on “education-related activities.” Based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s American Time Use Survey from 2003–2014, during the academic year, the average full-time college student spent only 2.76 hours per day on
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People Should Be Able to Calmly Discuss Politics0
- Culture
- July 27, 2016
There’s a popular pie chart that’s been going around social media for some time now. It furthers the belief that arguing about politics is always and everywhere a futile endeavor: I agree that most political arguments today—both on and off social media—quickly devolve into angry name-calling. But I think this phenomenon says something more about
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Is Social Media Tearing Us Apart?0
- Culture
- July 27, 2016
It feels like 1968. How do I know this? Because everyone is saying so. (If you don’t believe me, look at this.) To be fair, there is grounds for the comparison. In 1968, the country was torn by urban violence, civil unrest, and (domestic) terrorism. College campuses were hotbeds and protesting was all the rage.
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Chicago: 75% of Murdered Are Black, 71% of Murderers Are Black0
- Culture
- July 27, 2016
After hearing about a woman attempting to start a sex-strike in Chicago, ultimately based on the Ancient Greek play Lysistrata, to end the gun violence, we thought it would be good to dig into the numbers a little bit. We wish we hadn’t. Simply put, Chicago has a massive Black-on-Black murder problem. All of the
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Calvin Coolidge’s Immigration Policy: Relevant Today?0
- Culture
- July 27, 2016
In early July, Pew Research released a report on the election issues most concerning to the general public. Perhaps not surprisingly, the report showed a decided increase in concern about immigration compared to previous election years. Such increases are likely spurred by talk of “building a wall,” the huge waves of migrants that Europe
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Welcome to the Chaos Stage of our Decline0
- Culture
- July 26, 2016
Oddly enough, and despite the wretched news of another mass shooting right on the heels of several others, the latest reports from the Bureau of Justice Statistics indicate that gun violence is actually down. Statistically, we’re safer now than we were in the 1990s. Here are a couple highlights: Firearm-related homicides declined 39%, from 18,253
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Teacher: Students Crave Ethics Instruction0
- Culture
- July 26, 2016
High school English teacher Paul Barnwell made two interesting observations yesterday in The Atlantic. The first was that his students have no moral compass. Barnwell discovered this when discussing various ethical issues with his class. His students were, he found, quite oblivious to internationally and historically accepted values of moral living. But perhaps such a
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Is Free Will an Illusion?0
- Culture
- July 26, 2016
A little more than a year ago, I had the chance to talk with an extremely intelligent and talented scholar, one who had justly won a number of major awards. As we began to talk rather civilly over coffee and tea about our understandings of modern academia, this person said with some exasperation after I told
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History Quiz: Kings of Medieval England0
- Education
- July 26, 2016
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