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Calvin Coolidge’s Immigration Policy: Relevant Today?0
- Culture
- July 27, 2016
In early July, Pew Research released a report on the election issues most concerning to the general public. Perhaps not surprisingly, the report showed a decided increase in concern about immigration compared to previous election years. Such increases are likely spurred by talk of “building a wall,” the huge waves of migrants that Europe
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Report: College Students Spend Only 2.8 Hrs Per Day on Their Education 0
- Education
- July 27, 2016
A report released last week by the Heritage Foundation shows that full-time college students spend less than three hours per day on “education-related activities.” Based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s American Time Use Survey from 2003–2014, during the academic year, the average full-time college student spent only 2.76 hours per day on
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Brutal Reviews of Shakespeare from the 1600s 0
- History
- July 26, 2016
In 1660, Samuel Pepys, a 26-year-old civil servant in London, started writing a diary. He kept it up for about a decade before quitting, and the surviving record offers historians a rich glimpse into daily life in 17th century England. Take this entry from March 1, 1661. Pepys, an avid fan of theater, recorded his
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Is Free Will an Illusion?0
- Culture
- July 26, 2016
A little more than a year ago, I had the chance to talk with an extremely intelligent and talented scholar, one who had justly won a number of major awards. As we began to talk rather civilly over coffee and tea about our understandings of modern academia, this person said with some exasperation after I told
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History Quiz: Kings of Medieval England 0
- Education
- July 26, 2016
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Welcome to the Chaos Stage of our Decline 0
- Culture
- July 26, 2016
Oddly enough, and despite the wretched news of another mass shooting right on the heels of several others, the latest reports from the Bureau of Justice Statistics indicate that gun violence is actually down. Statistically, we’re safer now than we were in the 1990s. Here are a couple highlights: Firearm-related homicides declined 39%, from 18,253
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