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How Classic Cartoons Created a Culturally Literate Generation 2
- Culture
- July 18, 2017
I recently picked up Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court for the first time. Finding the plot rather amusing, I began relaying it to my father over the weekend. Because he had never read the book, I was rather surprised when he began asking informed questions about the story. In no time
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Half of Class of 2016 are ‘A’ Students—Even Though Their SAT Scores Stink 0
- Culture
- July 18, 2017
A while back, some friends of mine relayed an experience they had in their pre-marriage years while taking a college drama course together. At the beginning of the quarter, the instructor asked the students to write down the grade they would like to receive. The wife immediately wrote that she would like to receive an
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The Failure to Repeal Obamacare Is an Intellectual Failure 0
- Politics
- July 17, 2017
Absolutely amazing. Even tragic. The Republicans railed against the proven failure that is Obamacare for years and voted at least half a dozen times to repeal it. It was the most important issue of the entire 2016 election. Then the GOP gained control – House, Senate, Presidency – and what happened? So far, nothing. There is no
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College Students Love Socialism… But Don’t Have a Clue What it Means 0
- Culture
- July 17, 2017
In an article written last month for the New York Times, 29-year-old Sarah Leonard suggested that millennials are turning to socialism in droves. The reason, she opined, is that capitalism has let them down: “Across Europe and the United States, millennials are worse off than their parents were and are too poor to start new
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Why the Devil Loves Democracy 0
- Education
- July 17, 2017
It may surprise many that C.S. Lewis, the beloved author of The Chronicles of Narnia, has some some interesting takes on topics like unselfishness and democracy. Although a Christian apologist, Lewis, like Ayn Rand, believes unselfishness is a vice, not a virtue, and he skewers democracy for its pandering to the average, for its leveling effect, and
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U.S. Is One Generation Away from a Greece-Like Debt Crisis 0
- Economics
- July 17, 2017
While Congressional Republicans bicker over tweaks to the Affordable Care Act, the federal debt prepares to pass the $20 trillion mark. That might sound like a lot, but it’s small potatoes compared to what lay ahead. The CBO projects the debt to balloon to $92 trillion by 2047. What is driving this debt surge? The
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