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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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  • Political Correctness: Word Police Want More Than Your Words

    Political Correctness: Word Police Want More Than Your Words0

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  • Man Wearing Trump Hat Beaten By Mob in California

    Man Wearing Trump Hat Beaten By Mob in California0

    A video has surfaced showing a Trump supporter beaten at a rally in El Cajon, Calif. The man, who was wearing a “Make American Great Again” hat, was cornered, beaten, and chased by a mob. Watch the video for yourself. (WARNING: Graphic Content)       The video is extremely intense, but it’s nothing new.

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  • Future Teachers Are Scoring Way Low on the SAT

    Future Teachers Are Scoring Way Low on the SAT0

    The College Board just released a report on the results of the 2016 SAT test. One startling feature of the report included a historical timeline of students’ critical reading scores over the last 40-plus years. In 1972, this score was 530. By 2016 it had fallen to 494. There are undoubtedly many drivers behind this

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  • Can You Pass Geography 101?

    Can You Pass Geography 101?0

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  • 6 Signs You’re Dealing With a Sociopath

    6 Signs You’re Dealing With a Sociopath0

    When it comes to sociopaths, many people have the image of some prominent sociopathic character from a TV series, like Tony Soprano or Dexter Morgan. The truth is that these characters aren’t accurate depictions of the sociopaths you’ll meet in everyday life. Not every sociopath is keen on murdering people. The scary part is that

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  • 5 Reasons Millennials Don’t Want Kids

    5 Reasons Millennials Don’t Want Kids8

    Last week, I came across an article that cited nine reasons that millennials don’t want to have kids. And even though its tone was more similar to that of a childish rant than an article (so much so that I won’t even link to it here), it did bring up a lot of holdups that

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  • Why Even Racists Need the Freedom to Speak

    Why Even Racists Need the Freedom to Speak0

    Until recently, American political culture settled into a comfortable middle ground on matters of race. People knew what to say and how to say it, more or less. It was all very polite. Everyone obeyed the rules. This way you could stay out of trouble and avoid one of the most devastating accusations that could

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  • We’re Being Trained NOT To See

    We’re Being Trained NOT To See1

    I was reflecting today on the life of Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Buddha. According to Buddhist myth, Siddhartha was born under a prophecy that he would either become a great military ruler or a supremely enlightened holy man. His father wanted the former, so he raised Siddhartha in a bubble of sorts, filling his

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