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When Religious Freedom and Gender Equality Collide 0
- Culture
- July 19, 2016
What happens when religious freedom affronts feminist sensibility? The question came to the fore earlier this month when female teachers at a high school in Germany boycotted the school’s graduation ceremony in protest at the refusal of a male Muslim student to shake hands with a female teacher on the grounds of modesty. Although the
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Are We Blindly Accepting Preschool without Evidence?1
- Education
- July 19, 2016
Last fall we shared a new bit of preschool research conducted by the Peabody Research Institute at Vanderbilt University. The research found that Tennessee’s state-funded Voluntary Prekindergarten program made little difference in giving children a head start in learning. In fact, the time in preschool actually seemed to make children fall behind their peers who
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Research Suggests Traumatic ‘Memories’ can be Inherited 0
- Education
- July 18, 2016
Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta have found promising data showing that it’s possible for certain information to be biologically inherited by offspring, due to chemical changes in one’s DNA. Trials using mice discovered that traumatic and stressful experiences, and the emotions that are felt during them, can be passed down
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Policing Was Militarized from the Start 0
- Culture
- July 18, 2016
“Do you see this soldier in this checkpoint?” complained Iraqi resident Wael al-Khafaji, pointing to a spot just a few feet from his Baghdad barbershop. “He can do whatever he wants to me right now and I can’t say a word. Is this democracy?” Before the U.S. invasion, this businessman – like millions of other
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How Machiavellian Are You?0
- Entertainment
- July 18, 2016
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Surprised (and Saddened) by Joy 0
- History
- July 18, 2016
Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman, ed. by Don W. King (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009) I’ve spent the better part of my career as a historian and a writer, reading personal letters, memoirs, and autobiographies. I count it among one of the greatest pleasures in this life to be able to
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