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Soaring Child Care Costs: Is there an Alternative?0
- Culture
- July 13, 2016
The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article on the soaring cost of child care for American families. As the WSJ explains, “the cost of child care and nursery school has increased nearly twice as fast as overall inflation since the recession ended” in 2009. Particularly striking is the change in child-rearing costs between 1960
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Philosopher Explains Why We Protest. All. The. Time.0
- Culture
- July 13, 2016
I arrived to work this morning to news that 40 or 50 protestors had blocked a local highway during rush hour in protest of last week’s killing of Philando Castile. Similar protests are taking place across the country, yet protests have become so prevalent that we tend to scarcely notice them unless it directly
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Marvel Kills Bruce Banner, Retires Tony Stark in Diversity Purge0
- Culture
- July 13, 2016
Say goodbye to Bruce Banner and Tony Stark, comic book fans. The iconic characters were replaced with a more diverse cast this month. News of Bruce Banner’s demise broke Wednesday. The Hollywood Reporter has the story: Marvel Entertainment’s summer comic book storyline Civil War II has claimed the life of another hero — and it’s
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hope for the Modern World0
- History
- July 13, 2016
Clyde Kilby, an English professor from Wheaton College, worked with Tolkien in the summer of 1966. “Tolkien was an Old Western Man who was staggered at the present direction of civilization,” Kilby recorded after a summer of conversations with Tolkien. “Even our much vaunted talk of equality he felt debased by our attempts to ‘mechanize
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Decentralization: The Secret of Swiss Success0
- Culture
- July 13, 2016
Programs about the improbable success of Chile and Estonia already have aired on nationwide TV, and those were joined last weekend by a show about the “sensible nation” of Switzerland. Here’s the 28-minute program. When I first watched the program, I was slightly irked that there was very little discussion of the role of fiscal policy and the importance
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Can You Answer These 8th Grade History Questions From 1908?0
- Education
- July 13, 2016
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Bush’s Dallas Speech Was Clutch0
- History
- July 13, 2016
The slaying of five Dallas police officers in the wake of police shootings that left two African American men dead has been a difficult time for America, to say the least. The anguish resulting from these tragedies has been accompanied by a surge of anger, blame, and distrust from people of all races. The country
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What Parents can do to Make Children Great Writers0
- Education
- July 12, 2016
A little more than 300 years ago, a man named John Locke rolled out a plan for the well-rounded education of a child. Among other things, Locke noted the crucial importance which parents and teachers must place on writing instruction: “There can scarce be a greater defect in a gentleman, than not to express himself
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The strange history of ‘Mein Kampf’ in France0
- History
- July 12, 2016
Seventy years after the death of Adolf Hitler, “Mein Kampf” is in the public domain and free to be republished. The history of its English version is relatively well-known, thanks to historians James and Patience Barnes. Its history in French is not. While French journalist Antoine Vitkine wrote a 2009 global history of “Mein Kampf”
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