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Why Conservatives Can’t Understand Liberals (and Vice Versa)0
- Education
- July 25, 2016
It’s probably important to preface any conversation on morality by noting that humans often struggle—mightily—to agree on what morality is. While it’s a thorny topic to define and explain, it would of course be foolish to avoid the pursuit of moral truths for this reason. Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia
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Is Capitalism Good for the Poor?0
- Economics
- July 25, 2016
Critics frequently accuse markets and capitalism of making life worse for the poor. This refrain is certainly common in the halls of left-leaning academia as well as in broader intellectual circles. But like so many other criticisms of capitalism, this one ignores the very real, and very available, facts of history. The biggest gains in
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Students Today: Minds without ‘Furniture’0
- Education
- July 25, 2016
In my reading on past education philosophy, I have repeatedly encountered the phrase “furniture of the mind.” Perhaps the first instance of it is found in one of the most famous educational documents in history—“The Yale Report of 1828”—where the faculty of Yale College (now University) said the following: “The two great points to be
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Did ‘high ideals’ survive the Great War?0
- History
- July 22, 2016
As we mark look back on World War I, it is not particularly difficult to see its great political aftershocks: the emergence of the United States as a global power, the Russian Revolution, the modern state of Israel, the still controversial borders of the Middle East, and of course: the second world war and the
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Presidential Quotes 0
- Education
- July 22, 2016
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Can Chess Improve Student Behavior?0
- Culture
- July 22, 2016
A new study conducted in the U.K. produced a surprising finding: teaching elementary age children chess doesn’t improve math scores on standardized tests. This finding made waves as many previous studies have shown that learning chess brings significant boosts in math and science scores, particularly for older students. But in fixating on this negative
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