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Music for Easter & Holy Week: Ten Classical Pieces 0
- Culture
- April 13, 2017
Though Handel’s Messiah rightly reigns supreme as the king of music for Easter, there are many other seasonal masterpieces that deserve to be heard more often. Here are ten lesser-known classical works that brilliantly depict the dramatic events of Holy Week and Easter Sunday. 1. “Resurrexit” from the Messe Solennelle, by Hector Berlioz (1824) The
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How Adjunct College Teaching is Like Slave Labor 0
- Economics
- April 13, 2017
The Hollywood image of the university professor as a tweed blazer, button-up wearing young urban professional with plenty of disposable income is an enduring one. If only it were true. The image defies reality, at least for the vast majority of college professors. On most college and university campuses today, more than half are referred to
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Thomas Edison Would Have Been Given Adderall Today 0
- Education
- April 13, 2017
“The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.” – Thomas Edison In 1855, when he
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Why an Epidemic of Lonely Children is Upon Us 0
- Culture
- April 13, 2017
A recent headline in the Telegraph ran as follows: “Thousands of children receive counselling for loneliness.” The article goes on to explain how the British counseling service, Childline, has seen an uptick in the number of children seeking help for their feelings of isolation from both friends and family. According to the Telegraph, Childline lists
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Taxpayers Foot Bill For EPA Employee’s $15k Gym Membership 0
- Politics
- April 13, 2017
Via the Daily Caller News Foundation: “Las Vegas-based Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official used his government credit card to purchase a $14,799 gym membership. A conservative advocacy group released documents purporting to show EPA contracting officer Kevin Broadnax bought a 37-year membership at Super Sport gym on April 11, 2017. Broadnax used his government charge
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Bloggers Sued for Creating ‘Hostile Environment’ in Apartment Buildings 0
- Politics
- April 13, 2017
A recent ruling by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals menaces free speech in condominiums, apartment buildings, and the Internet. It allowed individual bloggers to be sued because their blog posts allegedly created a “hostile housing environment” for condo residents who kept emotional-support dogs despite the condominium’s no-dogs rule. This “hostile environment” allegedly rendered those
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