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The Pros and Cons of Small-Town Living 0
- Culture
- April 21, 2017
Over 80 percent of Americans now live in urban areas. But a growing number of those who do wonder if they should pack it in and migrate to smaller towns. Gracy Olmstead at the American Conservative weighs the pros and cons of this wondering in a thoughtful article this morning entitled “Abandoning vs. Living in
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Why People Today Get So Angry about Politics 0
- Politics
- April 21, 2017
I frequently wonder why so many people today get so angry at those who share different opinions on politics. Well, I think it’s because our culture has come to see anger, at least in this case, as a virtue. A sentiment that pervades our society today, and is even spoon-fed to some students in schools,
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Your Socialism Is Bad and You Should Feel Bad 0
- Economics
- April 21, 2017
I’m tempted to say that statism is sort of like a cult. Proponents of socialism and other big-government ideologies have a dogmatic zeal that blinds them to reality. For instance, no nation has ever become rich with big government. But that doesn’t stop leftists from advocating in favor of higher taxes and more coercive redistribution.
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What Deep Throat Could Teach Us About Fake News 0
- Culture
- April 21, 2017
Since the election, the reading public has been tortured with the cries from both right and the left about “fake news.” And even though Google just updated its fact-checking tools, the problem doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon. But let’s face it. We could have prevented this. If reporters and readers alike stopped
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The Loneliness of the Middle-aged Man 0
- Culture
- April 21, 2017
It made for a bold headline when the Boston Globe published The Biggest Threat facing middle age men isn’t smoking or obesity. It’s loneliness. Globe reporter Billy Baker’s article exploring how men let friendships lapse as they grow older – leading to loneliness induced health risks- struck a chord around the world, and prompted a
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This 1890 Australian Homework Book Puts Today’s Students to Shame 0
- Education
- April 21, 2017
It’s not often that we get a glimpse of what schoolwork was like around the turn of the 20th century. But every once in a while, someone unearths a record which reveals just how rigorous education used to be. Such was the case in Australia when Marcia Maybury discovered a homework book compiled by her
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