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Physician: American Children ‘Immersed in a Culture of Disrespect’0
- Culture
- December 27, 2016
Let’s face it. Almost every child has likely had some type of meltdown in public, causing great embarrassment to both the child’s parent and to other witnesses in the vicinity. But while such disrespectful behavior is embarrassing at age two, it’s downright horrifying the older a child gets. Dr. Leonard Sax recently experienced one of
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Univ. Suspends Law Prof. For Wearing Blackface Costume 0
- Culture
- December 27, 2016
The University of Oregon suspended a tenured professor for wearing blackface at an off-campus Halloween party, and now is considering additional punishment. The university admits the professor had no ill intent (reports suggest that she wore it in a strange attempt to honor a black physician, by dressing up as the title character in a black doctor’s
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How We’ll Remember George Michael 0
- Culture
- December 27, 2016
Over the Christmas holiday, 2016 claimed yet another pop icon: George Michael. He was 53. Late last night, I made the mistake of sharing a TMZ article on my public Facebook page that showed what George Michael looked like a few months before his death. He had packed on a lot of weight, so much
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Overcoming Cultural and Racial Division in the Age of Trump 0
- Culture
- December 27, 2016
Both minorities and poor and lower-middle-class whites agree race relations are getting worse, but they disagree whether the solution is to talk more or less about race. They were divided by the meaning of President-elect Donald Trump’s mantra “Make America Great Again.” Is it a promise to return to a time when American manufacturing thrived
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The Executioner’s Song: The Best Nonfiction Novel I’ve Read 0
- Culture
- December 27, 2016
My wife’s sister, we’ll call her Wendy, is a fellow book worm. She likes to pick my brain for recommendations whenever we drop in around the holidays to enjoy their hospitality on “the farm.” (They grow cranberries on a spread in central Wisconsin.) Suggesting books is a job I relish, but of late it
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The Great Equalizer 0
- Culture
- December 27, 2016
It’s odd that those who are often calling for ever greater equality in all things, are the same who are often the most vocally calling to get rid of guns. Understandably, the thinking goes that if guns are gone then we all have a great and more equal opportunity to live in safety. Perhaps. But
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