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The ‘Sick’ Reason Students Are Reading Less and Less 0
- Culture
- September 21, 2016
A couple of years ago, Common Sense Media reported a dramatic increase in the number of children who rarely – if ever – read. In 1984, just under 10 percent of children ages 13 and 17 reported doing so; by 2012, those numbers had risen to 22 percent and 27 percent respectively. So why aren’t
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McDonald’s Sacks 70 Accountants, Replaces Them With Foreign Workers 0
- Culture
- September 21, 2016
Disney made headlines last year when the company laid off some 250 employees and then required them to train their replacements—immigrants on temporary H-1B visas—if they wanted to receive their severance package. (Two of the former Disney workers are now suing Disney.) McDonald’s, America’s most iconic fast food chain, reportedly has taken a similar course.
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Why Charles M. Schulz Added a Black Character to the Peanuts Gang 1
- Culture
- September 20, 2016
On April 15, 1968, Harriet Glickman, a schoolteacher and mother of three, wrote a short letter to cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated less than two weeks before. Much of the momentum of the Civil Right Movement seemed lost. Glickman explained to Schulz that she felt a need to
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Amy Schumer: Unlikely but Persuasive Defender of Marriage 0
- Culture
- September 20, 2016
Amy Schumer seems like an unlikely critic of the sexual revolution. But in her new memoir, The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo, the often ribald comedian writes of her parents’ marriages (three apiece) and divorces in a way that reads like fodder for a Dr. Laura book about family values. “I’ve had UTIs that lasted
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Scholar: Schools Are Creating ‘Learned Barbarians’0
- Culture
- September 20, 2016
There are two main competing views about human nature in Western civilization. The first and most ancient is the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian view. Mutatis mutandis, it holds that men and women are born with a proclivity toward ignorance, are subject to many harmful passions (e.g. anger, envy, etc.), and need much training and work to
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Telegraph: Down’s Syndrome People Could Soon Face “Extinction”0
- Culture
- September 20, 2016
This week, The Telegraph commented ona trend that’s been apparent for quite some time: about 90% of pregnancies involving a fetus diagnosed with Down’s Syndrome in Britain are aborted. The statistical picture in the U.S. is a bit more complicated, but even with all the academic qualifications, it’s clear that the majority are aborted. Some
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