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Avoiding Gluten isn’t Healthy if you don’t Have Coeliac Disease 0
- Science
- January 8, 2018
Coeliac disease, an allergy to gluten that causes damage to the intestine, affects 1% of the population. But more than ten times this number, or around 11% of the population, follows a gluten-free diet by choice, and up to 30% of people in the United States try to reduce their gluten intake. Gluten-free foods are
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This Week I Was Denied a Service Because of the Company’s Values—And I’m Okay With That 2
- Philosophy
- January 8, 2018
This week I was denied a service because the company’s values are at odds with the values that Alliance Defending Freedom stands for—values I personally hold. And guess what? I’m okay with that. Allow me to explain. As a writer, I’m always looking to improve my skills. And working for a no-debt ministry like Alliance
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The Best Argument for Atheism 1
- Religion
- January 8, 2018
David Bentley Hart is one of the foremost Christian apologists and prose stylists of our age. Perhaps his most popular work is Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, which contains a critique of many of the bad arguments against God’s existence put forward by contemporary atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel
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The Daddy Gap: 1 in 4 Fathers Don’t Live with Their Kids 0
- Culture
- January 8, 2018
Over the last 20 years, I’ve spent a good deal of time working with kids from the inner city. Through this interaction, I’ve grown accustomed to the fact that biological fathers are virtually non-existent in the homes of the children I know. One might say I’ve even grown a bit numb to this sad reality
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Why We Should Resist the Urge to Shame People into Conformity 0
- Entertainment
- January 8, 2018
The American psychologist Rollo May (1909-1994) once observed that the opposite of courage is not cowardice; it’s conformity. May believed this was particularly true for modern man, but it would be a mistake to assume the pressure to conform is a phenomenon confined to our age. The individual, Kipling observed, has always struggled to resist
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Howling Cow Ice Cream: An NC State Experiment in Hands-On Learning 0
- Economics
- January 5, 2018
In the past, I’ve been critical of commercial activity on North Carolina’s public university campuses. It competes with private business, attracts unfair tax advantages, and may (in some cases) violate provisions of the Umstead Act. It’s also far outside a public university’s three-part mission of education, research, and service. In most cases, I think business
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