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Second Grade Reading Textbooks: 1879 vs. Today 0
- Culture
- January 31, 2017
Over the weekend, a friend of mine was describing her work as a teacher in a local classical school. The literature class she taught for 2nd and 3rd graders particularly interested me. I then asked her what type of reading materials her class used. She replied that their main textbooks were McGuffey readers, the primers
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What the 7 Countries Included in Trump’s Ban Have in Common 0
- Culture
- January 31, 2017
(Editor’s note: The following is a roundup of archival stories related to Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia.) Last week, President Trump signed an executive order temporarily banning citizens from seven countries from entering the U.S. and indefinitely banning Syrian refugees. The stated aim of the order is to ensure the U.S. doesn’t
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‘Bad Things Happen For a Reason’: Why People Might Want to Lose the Phrase 0
- Literature
- January 31, 2017
The problem of evil is a classic dilemma in the philosophy of religion. The relative ease with which the problem can be stated belies the depth of the challenge that it presents to traditional monotheism. Roughly, it can be summarised as follows: If God is omnipotent, then He has the power to create a world
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My Kindergartner Was Told Trump Was Going to Kill ‘All the Girls in the U.S.’0
- Culture
- January 31, 2017
Yesterday afternoon I received an email from the dean of my 5-year-old daughter’s school. When I saw my little girl’s name in the subject line, my first thought was that she had said something naughty. (She’s a goofball and recently discovered scatological humor.) But that wasn’t the case. Kelly and Jonathan, Just wanted to let
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‘La La Land’: A Glorious Movie that Succumbs to Pessimism 0
- Culture
- January 31, 2017
No movie comes more highly recommended than La La Land, which won more Golden Globe Awards (seven) than any other movie in history and which is now poised to sweep the Oscars (fourteen nominations). Does La La Land, as its admirers assert, really evoke the Hollywood of old? Is it a classic musical that spurns the irony and
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No, Ayn Rand Did Not Want Us to Be Selfish 0
- History
- January 31, 2017
In modern America, February 2 is best known as Groundhog Day. But it also marks the birth of one of the most praised and criticized thinkers of the past century – Ayn Rand. Rand sold more than 30 million books. Atlas Shrugged has been ranked behind only the Bible as an influence on readers’ lives.
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