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Why Self-Discipline Must Be Selfish 0
- Education
- December 7, 2016
Today’s the day. The day you get serious about your work, your studies, your finances, your health, your life. Commence adulting. You start strong, like you always do. You set up your to do list. You make headway on a project. But then, insensibly, as the day wears on, you start slipping. By the next
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Can Vocational Classes Teach Kids to ‘Adult’?0
- Culture
- December 7, 2016
Today’s high schoolers are pushed through a battery of tests, college applications, extra-curricular activities, and courses on everything under the sun. But in spite of all these opportunities, many students graduate without having any real-life skills which can transfer immediately into the working world. As a recent article in The Washington Post explains, one Maryland
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How Our Contradictions Make Us Human 0
- Philosophy
- December 7, 2016
Have you ever wondered how many contradictory thoughts you have in a day? How many times your thoughts contradict your actions? How often your feelings oppose your principles and beliefs? Most of the time, we don’t see our own contradictions – it’s often easier to observe such inconsistencies in others. But you are as full
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The Pentagon is Even More Bloated than You Thought 0
- Economics
- December 7, 2016
An internal study at the Department of Defense identified $125 billion in wasteful spending, the Washington Post reports. But government officials buried the report out of fear lawmakers would make defense cuts in the ensuing budget. Via Bob Woodward and Craig Whitlock at the Post: Pentagon leaders had requested the study to help make their
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New Normal on College Campuses: “I believe in free speech, but…”0
- Culture
- December 7, 2016
The news that students at City, University of London have voted to ban The Sun, Daily Mail and Express newspapers from its campus – a ban which could be extended to other media organisations – is just the latest example of how free speech is under threat at universities across the globe. The university’s student
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The Moral Problem with that ‘Last Tango’ Rape Scene 0
- Culture
- December 7, 2016
In the past week a clip of director Bernardo Bertolucci speaking about a scene in the 1972 film The Last Tango in Paris set off a firestorm of controversy on Twitter. The film tells the story of a recently widowed American man’s sordid sexual affair with a French woman. In the particular scene, the character
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