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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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Why So Many Men Are Friendless 0
- Culture
- September 30, 2016
A popular VICE article sets out to determine “Why Millions of Men Lose Friends in Their Twenties.” The impetus for the article was a 2014 YouGov poll conducted in the UK that found that 2.5 million men “over the age of 18 don’t have a close friend they would discuss a serious life problem with.”
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Plutarch’s 3 Tips for Choosing a School 1
- Education
- September 30, 2016
Today’s education world is full of options. In fact, there are so many options that it can be tempting for parents to throw up their hands and just pick one without much thought. But such is a terrible move, according to the ancient Roman author Plutarch. He suggests the following three steps in choosing an
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