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5 Non-Political Tidbits about Trump’s Supreme Court Pick 0
- Culture
- February 1, 2017
On January 31, 2017, President Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to take Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat on the Supreme Court. Despite the pageantry of the announcement, it was difficult not to let one’s eyes stray to Judge Gorsuch and his wife Louise. The two of them looked like a nice, middle-age, average American couple, suddenly
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2016’s Homeownership Rate was the Lowest Since 1965 0
- Economics
- February 1, 2017
Yesterday, the Census Bureau released its measure of homeownership for 2016, and the annual average for 2016 was 63.4 percent. That’s the lowest rate measured since 1965 when the homeownership rate was 63 percent. 2016 was also the twelfth year in a row in which the homeownership rate was lower than the year prior. In
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Do Men Secretly Want Stay-at-Home Wives?1
- Culture
- January 31, 2017
Are men afraid to tell women their true desires? The answer to that question may hinge on what those desires are. If those desires are for women to break through the glass ceiling and do everything a man does, then it’s likely men are not afraid to spill their desires to the woman in their
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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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