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  • Judge Immigrants by Content of Character, not Skin

    Judge Immigrants by Content of Character, not Skin0

    I’m one of millions of Mexicans living in the United States who Donald Trump might assume is “good people.” I’m not a criminal, a rapist or a drug dealer. I did not cross the border by foot but arrived by plane in Seattle, a welcoming city I now call home. I was born in Mexico

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  • Have Parents Forgotten to Teach the Magic Words?

    Have Parents Forgotten to Teach the Magic Words?0

    It’s sometimes amazing how much one can learn about society from places such as Reddit and Imgur. A prime example of this occurred a few days ago when an Imgur user posted a picture of a sign found outside of a Virginia coffee shop. Instead of listing one flat price for a cup of coffee,

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  • Frightening: This Description of the Decline of Rome sounds like America

    Frightening: This Description of the Decline of Rome sounds like America0

    The date traditionally assigned to the Fall of the Roman Empire is 476 A.D., when Odoacer marched on Rome and deposed the last emperor. But Rome’s internal decline began long before then. As Will Durant famously said, “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.” In his 1899 classic

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  • ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ Statements Required on Campus

    ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ Statements Required on Campus0

    Last month, the University of Cincinnati issued a statement notifying the public that the school “will request a Diversity and Inclusion statement of all applicants for faculty and staff positions.” The policy went into effect on July 1, the release said. It includes the following specifics: Faculty and administrative/professional applicants will be asked to submit

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  • Should parents sometimes make children apologize?

    Should parents sometimes make children apologize?0

    Have you ever felt deserving of an apology and been upset when you didn’t get one? Have you ever found it hard to deliver the words, I’m sorry? Such experiences show how much apologies matter. The importance placed on apologies is shared by many cultures. Diverse cultures even share a great deal in common when

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  • Sharing Your Netflix Password Might Now Be a Federal Crime

    Sharing Your Netflix Password Might Now Be a Federal Crime1

    In a recent opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the conviction of a man who used a former co-worker’s password to access information from his previous employer.   Via Reuters: A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday gave the U.S. Department of Justice broad leeway to police password theft under

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  • Scientist Says ADHD is Basically Bullsh*t

    Scientist Says ADHD is Basically Bullsh*t0

    Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, “is a prime example of fictitious disease,” said Leon Eisenberg, the “scientific father of ADHD,” shortly before he passed away at the age of 87 in 2009. Why would Eisenberg claim that a condition we’ve come to know so well is largely fictitious?  While many have said that Eisenberg’s

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  • Orwell on Why Politicians Resort to Euphemisms

    Orwell on Why Politicians Resort to Euphemisms0

    As a few of my colleagues have noted in the past, today’s academic writing is one big farce. Rather than express their ideas in a clear, straightforward way, academics seem to believe they can only prove their intellectual ability by stringing together sentences of pompous words. Unfortunately, the general public furthers this practice by behaving

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  • Harvard Economist: No Racial Bias in Police Shootings

    Harvard Economist: No Racial Bias in Police Shootings0

    Roland G. Fryer Jr. called the finding “the most surprising result” of his career. In a New York Times article published Monday, Fryer, the youngest African-American to receive tenure at Harvard, said his research finds no racial bias in police shootings. Via the Times: The result contradicts the mental image of police shootings that many

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