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Professor: Voting Should Be Restricted to Those With Knowledge 0
- Education
- October 3, 2016
Who should hold power: the few or the many? Concentrating power in the hands of a few – in monarchy, dictatorship or oligarchy – tends to result in power for personal benefit at the expense of others. Yet in spreading power among the many – as in a democracy – individual votes no longer matter,
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Is it Time to Scrap the SAT and ACT?0
- Culture
- October 3, 2016
Parents, test prep experts, and college counselors give careful thought in working with students as they approach the crucial “college entrance exam.” Which of the two exams should they prep for? Which of the two exams will they do better on? After running an SAT/ACT Prep company for a couple of years, I became convinced
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Professor: Today’s Students Can’t Even Crack an Egg 0
- Culture
- October 3, 2016
It’s been noted before that many members of the up-and-coming generation are clueless when it comes to basic skills like reading a map, writing a letter, and starting a fire. Washington College professor Bill Schindler could add another item to that list: cracking an egg. According to the Washington Post, Schindler discovered this fact by
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Apprenticeship-Trained Workers A Hot Ticket. But Why?1
- Economics
- October 3, 2016
When it comes to pursuing a good career and salary, college seems the logical pathway to success. According to The Wall Street Journal, however, that common wisdom may not always be true. In fact, the college alternative of apprenticeship may actually offer a better chance of employment and a better salary. “The Labor Department said
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How Coffee Drinking Helped Advance Women’s Rights 0
- Culture
- September 30, 2016
In 18th century Europe, many products and services reached a newly emergent middle class for the first time in human history. The capitalist age was maturing, and that meant that average people had money for the first time and lots of choices on how to spend it. One of the new products they could buy
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Tax Avoidance Isn’t Just Smart, it’s as American as Apple Pie 0
- Economics
- September 30, 2016
Since the first Presidential Debate, there has been a lot of hue and cry because Donald Trump had the temerity to declare that he paid no income taxes. More specifically Hillary Clinton said, about his refusal to make his income tax statements public: There is something he is hiding. Or maybe he doesn’t want the
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