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How TV’s Drip-Feed Destroys Your Mind0
- Culture
- June 3, 2016
Many years ago, my wife and I decided to unplug ourselves from the prurience and propaganda piped into our homes via the television. It was one of the best decisions we ever made—and one of the most liberating. It freed us from hours of passive servitude to the soporific drip-feed of mind-numbing nonsense that passes
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How Middle Easterners Treated European Refugees during WWII0
- Education
- June 3, 2016
At the peak of World War II, when Adolf Hitler’s war machine still seemed destined to create his dream of a Third Reich, hundreds of thousands of Europeans found themselves without safe haven. It was April 1941. Hitler and Stalin had already divvied up Poland, and the Germans had swallowed most of Western Europe. On
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Disgusting: Anti-Trump Protesters Show who is Violent and Hateful0
- Culture
- June 3, 2016
Things are clearly getting heated in politics with the arrival of Donald Trump. Since the Chicago, anti-Trump protests broke out in violence, the subsequent anti-Trump protests seem to be escalating in violence whether in New Mexico, San Diego, or San Jose. The most recent videos are filled with physical assaults against pro-Trump individuals, destruction of
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11-Year-Old Girl Eviscerates Hollywood0
- Culture
- June 3, 2016
Today the film Me Before You, based on a 2012 novel of the same title, opens in theaters throughout the U.S. and Britain. It centers on a talented man, Will Traynor, whom a motorcycle accident made quadriplegic; he no longer finds life worth living and commits suicide calmly, with a bit of help, after much
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Yale Students Petition to ‘Abolish’ Major English Poets0
- Culture
- June 2, 2016
The petition starts out polite enough. “We, undergraduate students in the Yale English Department, write to urge the faculty to reevaluate the undergraduate curriculum.” Then it gets a little chippy. We oppose the continued existence of the Major English Poets sequence as the primary prerequisite for further study. It is unacceptable that a Yale student
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The Dangers of ‘Hate Speech’ Rules0
- Culture
- June 2, 2016
Russell Kirk argued that to engage in politics and ideas we must “draw the sword of imagination”. By that he meant, we must imagine all the ways in which a policy or an idea may do either good or harm. Recently, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media giants announced that they will be working with
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The ‘Everyone Gets a Trophy’ Mentality is Out of Control0
- Culture
- June 2, 2016
Mark up another victory for the “everyone-gets-a-trophy” mentality. The latest victim of this mindset is a high school honor student from Texas. A local ABC news affiliate reports: “National Honor Society (NHS) stoles are frequent sight at high school graduation ceremonies around the country, but one Plano Senior High School student is frustrated that he
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Chores: The Canary in the Coal Mine of Kids’ Character0
- Culture
- June 2, 2016
Business Insider ran a list of 13 things parents can do to turn their child into a successful adult. The first item on the list was to make a child do chores. Given the fact that only 28 percent of parents require their children to do chores, it seems that we’re destined for a generation
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Are Parents Training Children to be Inattentive?0
- Culture
- June 2, 2016
When I was still in high school, a local private grade school invited me to become one of their piano teachers. Needless to say, I was nervous, but quite excited about the opportunity. I soon found out that while some of my students loved piano and entered wholeheartedly into practicing, others absolutely did not. In
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