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  • How Our Perception of Masculinity is Changing

    How Our Perception of Masculinity is Changing0

    In recent years, a mildly trending topic of discussion has been the question, “Where have all the men gone?” While there are a number of theories as to the answer, a British survey just released by YouGov may shed some light on the issue. Among other things, the survey asked participants about their impressions of

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  • Do Children Learn to Read Better From Their Parents?

    Do Children Learn to Read Better From Their Parents?0

    While paging through The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading, I came across a fascinating little story from author Jessie Wise’s personal experience: “I was adopted by an elderly couple who had been educated in an isolated, rural one-room schoolhouse. By her eighth and final year of school, Meme had studied algebra, Latin, and the

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  • Death By Government: The Primary Fact of the 20th Century

    Death By Government: The Primary Fact of the 20th Century0

    It was in June 1996 that I picked up a book that, for all intents and purposes, changed my life: R.J. Rummel’s Death by Government (Transaction, 1994). After purchasing the book, I devoured it on a flight from Houston to Indianapolis. Every anti-Communist thought my mother had so rightly drilled into me as a child, every viewing of The Killing

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  • Chesterton’s Take on Oscar Wilde

    Chesterton’s Take on Oscar Wilde0

    Oscar Wilde’s literally genius can be found in many literary styles, but it was his use of paradox that truly set him apart from all others. The possible exception to this, of course, was a contemporary of Wilde’s: G.K. Chesterton. In many ways—politics, temperament, religion, and taste in art—the two men could not have been

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  • 4 Blasphemies From John Stuart Mill on Public Education

    4 Blasphemies From John Stuart Mill on Public Education0

    On May 20th, 1806, one of the great philosophers of the 19th century was born: John Stuart Mill. Known for his promotion of utilitarianism, a philosophy declaring that “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness,” Mill also penned a number of

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  • The Zero-Tolerance Police Nab 5-Year-Old Girl

    The Zero-Tolerance Police Nab 5-Year-Old Girl0

    Chalk up another brilliant school suspension to the zero-tolerance police. The perpetrator this time? A 5-year-old with a *gasp* plastic bubble gun. A local news station reports: “The girl’s mother, who goes by Emma, said she was shocked when she got a call from the school telling her she needed to pick up her daughter and

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  • The Hidden Philosophical Message in ‘Gladiator’

    The Hidden Philosophical Message in ‘Gladiator’0

    In Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, the philosophical emperor Marcus Aurelius makes a wonderful appearance. In this poetic portrayal of the truths of history, Marcus Aurelius (played by Richard Harris) chooses the fictional Maximus as his true spiritual heir, because his errant son Commodus is not a man of virtue as his father is. The interesting question is

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  • Study: Mothers with More Kids Have One BIG Advantage

    Study: Mothers with More Kids Have One BIG Advantage0

    Do women who have more children live longer? That’s the conclusion of a recent, peer-reviewed study cited in this January article by The Atlantic’s health editor, Julie Beck. It is supported by other, less recent studies. What’s interesting is that it runs counter both to intuition and to other evidence. After all, the stress of

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  • Lou Gehrig and the Culture of Victimhood

    Lou Gehrig and the Culture of Victimhood2

    Over the weekend, I had the fun of revisiting one of my long-time favorite films, The Pride of the Yankees. For those unfamiliar with The Pride of the Yankees, the movie portrays the life story of baseball legend Lou Gehrig, who died at the age of 37 from ALS, the disease which now bears his

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