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Is Loneliness Driving People to Eat Out More?0
- Culture
- November 3, 2016
In recent years, data has shown that the money Americans spend eating out at restaurants has slowly overtaken the amount spent at grocery stores. It’s easy to look at such numbers and quickly lay the blame at the feet of the younger generation: they’re lazy, they don’t have any basic skills, and they don’t understand
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Univ. Announces Essay Contest on Child Welfare in Pedophile’s Honor 0
- Culture
- November 3, 2016
The title of this essay offers news that is untrue. It satirizes the truth in order to make a critical point. Recently the Paterno Fellows Program announced an essay contest on ethical values, which is open to all Penn State University students. The program is named in honor of Joe Paterno, who was an English
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Children Are Actually Getting Fatter on Summer Break 0
- Culture
- November 3, 2016
As a child, some of my favorite books were the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace. Although fiction, the stories were largely taken from real life examples of the author’s childhood in a turn of the 20th century town. One of the recurring themes in the books is the nightly games which were played outside
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Students Want Prof Fired for Questioning ‘Diversity’0
- Culture
- November 3, 2016
Anthony Esolen, a professor at Providence College and translator of classic works, is under fire for writing an essay critical of diversity. The essay, entitled “My College Succumbed to the Totalitarian Diversity Cult,” was published in Crisis Magazine in September. You can read it here. Done reading? If so, you might be wondering what all the fuss
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Hillary’s Economically Clueless Plans Will Create More Poverty 0
- Economics
- November 2, 2016
Because of my disdain for the two statists that were nominated by the Republicans and Democrats, I’m trying to ignore the election. But every so often, something gets said or written that cries out for analysis. Today is one of those days. Hillary Clinton has an editorial in the New York Times entitled “My Plan
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3 Reasons to Embrace the Single Life 0
- Culture
- November 2, 2016
For whatever reason, being single often comes with a stigma. A stigma that you’re somehow unfit for a partner. That’s kind of a cop-out, don’t you think? Why is it that everyone is so concerned with whether or not we have a partner? Of course, relationships can be beautiful, incredible things, but being single can be just as incredible.
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