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Humans are Intensely Loyal to Groups that Haze Newcomers. Why?0
- Culture
- January 17, 2017
In the autumn of 1900, Oscar Booz, a 17-year-old student at West Point military academy, was hazed by fellow cadets. Tabasco sauce was forced down his throat on three different occasions, and he was coerced into boxing a much larger student who savagely beat him. After the fight, he became ill, moved home and died.
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Is There a Way to Stop America’s Minds from Closing?0
- Culture
- January 17, 2017
A few years ago, a friend of mine expressed a sentiment that many of us have probably felt at some time or another: “I want my children to have a better education than I had.” Now, this friend happens to be a very talented, intelligent, and well-educated young lady. For her to say such a
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Politician: Wives Should Withhold Sex Until Husbands Vote 0
- Culture
- January 17, 2017
We see it every election season. Those ads featuring an outwardly diverse group of celebrities imploring Americans to get off their lazy butts and vote. (The 2016 season was unique in that one commercial, shown below, poked fun at the cliché.) A member of parliament in Kenya is taking it up a notch. She is
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9 Truths MLK Taught us about Peace and Nonviolence 0
- Culture
- January 16, 2017
1. “We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience. And that will be a day not of the white man, not of the black man. That will be the day of man as man.” – How Long, Not
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That Teacher Who Got Impregnated by a 13-Year-Old Was Sentenced 0
- Culture
- January 16, 2017
Via the Washington Post: A former Texas middle-school teacher who was impregnated by a 13-year-old student has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Alexandria Vera, 25, was facing up to 30 years behind bars after pleading guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a child in November. She admitted to police that a relationship that
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Is it Time We Stopped Viewing Schools as the Best Parent?0
- Culture
- January 16, 2017
When it comes to school, educators always know best, right? This assumption was challenged by Jay Matthews in The Washington Post over the weekend. After reporting on an incident at a high caliber high school where parents felt educators and administrators were not listening to their concerns, Matthews noted: “Failure to tell parents what is
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