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NYT Writer: Cultural Appropriation is the New Blasphemy 0
- Culture
- June 15, 2017
Whether it’s hoop earrings, dreadlocks, or Taco Tuesdays, America seems to have a fascination with cultural appropriation. So much so, that it appears things are getting a little out of hand, a fact which author Kenan Malik noted in the New York Times the other day. According to Malik, various editors and artists who reference
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Can Western Civilization Survive the Next Stock Market Crash?0
- Economics
- June 15, 2017
In a recent interview, legendary investor and author Jim Rogers forecasts a financial market crash that would be the “biggest in my lifetime.” Such dire forecasts are not hard to find, but, with the stock market hovering at all-time highs, it is easy to dismiss doomsayers. Given sustained, problematical monetary and fiscal policies, the odds
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Is Our Culture’s Focus on Gender Childish?0
- Culture
- June 15, 2017
One of the joys of being a parent—I have three children, ages 6, 4, and 8 months—is that one gets to witness individual case studies in human nature. It’s no secret that small children are basically all id. They are capable of warmth and compassion, but those traits often disappear as soon as
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The Disappearing Valedictorian: Another Victim of the Participation Trophy Generation?0
- Culture
- June 15, 2017
One of the central plots in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables concerns the fractious relationship between Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe. This friction primarily plays out in the classroom where Anne determines to get ahead of Gilbert in every subject even if it kills her: “Now Gilbert was head of the spelling class;
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6 Reasons Why Video Gaming Will Become the Next Big College Sport 0
- Culture
- June 14, 2017
Watching college football and basketball is a popular pastime in America. Indeed, given its popularity, it’s difficult to imagine that college ball sports will ever be displaced by an upstart competitor. However, they do have competition and it’s not exactly Quidditch. It’s video gaming—or, as college athletics departments are calling them, esports. According to
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The Idea of Creating a New Universe in the Lab is No Joke 0
- Religion
- June 14, 2017
Physicists aren’t often reprimanded for using risqué humour in their academic writings, but in 1991 that is exactly what happened to the cosmologist Andrei Linde at Stanford University. He had submitted a draft article entitled ‘Hard Art of the Universe Creation’ to the journal Nuclear Physics B. In it, he outlined the possibility of creating
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