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Student Achievement: Only as Good as the Books Read in English Class?0
- Education
- April 10, 2017
When it comes to improving education, a lot of emphasis is placed upon the STEM subjects: science, math, and the like. Proficiency in such areas, it is argued, is necessary if the U.S. wants its students to be successful on a global scale. Such a supposition may be true; however, new evidence suggests that student
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Pioneer Feminist: Feminism Didn’t Turn Out as Well as We Thought 0
- Culture
- April 10, 2017
A few weeks ago, we brought attention to the recent comments of Fay Weldon, a pioneer in the modern feminist movement. In Weldon’s eyes, today’s women have taken their claim to victimhood a little too far. Weldon has reappeared in the news with more startling statements on her outlook on feminism in retrospect. In an
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The 21-Year Drinking Age is Dumb and Should be Repealed 0
- Culture
- April 10, 2017
The national discussion on prohibition has centered almost exclusively on pot, and whether states will or should be allowed to proceed with legalization. Largely forgotten is federal legislation that incentivizes states to make it illegal for young adults—those aged 18, 19, and 20—to drink alcohol. The U.S. has one of the most stringent drinking
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Nuclear Option Restores Senate Sanity 0
- Politics
- April 7, 2017
Via Ilya Shapiro at Cato: “Thursday’s removal of the filibuster – a parliamentary tool effectively requiring 60 votes to proceed with a vote on a matter – for Supreme Court nominees is the long overdue denouement of a process that began not with Senate Republicans’ refusal to vote on Merrick Garland, or even Harry Reid’s
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The Truth About Spider Bites in Australia 0
- International
- April 7, 2017
Recent news reports that a man had both his legs amputated after being bitten by a white-tailed spider have again cast this relatively harmless spider in a negative light. Experts have since said amputations may have been wrongly blamed on a spider bite, and authorities now consider a bacterial infection to be responsible for the
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Why Is War Such a Seductive Illusion?0
- History
- April 7, 2017
Today the US appears to stand on the brink of launching yet another major war, ostensibly out of moral outrage at what is happening in Syria, and allegedly for the sake of human rights, conducted with a completely unjustified sense of certainty that war will produce a better result than diplomacy, trade, and caution. Today
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