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The Myth of the Disappearing Book 0
- Culture
- November 3, 2016
After years of sales growth, major publishers reported a fall in their e-book sales for the first time this year, introducing new doubts about the potential of e-books in the publishing industry. A Penguin executive even admitted recently that the e-books hype may have driven unwise investment, with the company losing too much confidence in
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5 Signs You’re Dealing With a Total Narcissist 0
- Culture
- November 3, 2016
There’s a good chance that pretty much everyone on this planet has encountered a narcissist before. They pop up in almost every facet of life and come into your world when you least expect someone threatening. Of course, it can be hard to recognize a narcissist, and you might not realize how just toxic this person is
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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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