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Kids Today Need More (Not Less) Responsibility 1
- Culture
- July 15, 2016
My wife and I are among the only 28% of parents today who make their children do chores. And, like many children when forced to do undesirable work, ours do their fair share of complaining and dawdling. In these moments, the reminder we frequently give them is this: “It’s not your job to play.” Perhaps
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Who Wrote This Medieval Literary Classic?0
- Education
- July 15, 2016
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Bedtime Stories Help Kids—So Ban Them?0
- Culture
- July 15, 2016
Class divides and racial divides are passé. Now, there’s bedtime reading inequality. In a recent article for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, journalist Joe Gelonesi asked whether loving families are an “unfair advantage.” The piece asked whether we should level the academic playing field among all children, by having all parents stop bedtime reading in order
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That Alexander Hamilton Had One Messed Up Childhood 1
- Entertainment
- July 15, 2016
Interest in Alexander Hamilton, the man commonly dubbed America’s “most brilliant” Founding Father, has spiked following the success of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway “>musical: Hamilton. While I’ve yet to see the musical, I have read the book that inspired Miranda’s work: Ron Chernow’s stunning biography, Alexander Hamilton. It is perhaps the single best biography I’ve read,
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Parricide Was Not Treated Kindly in Ancient Rome 0
- History
- July 15, 2016
Rome was the cultural epicenter of the ancient world. It was renowned for its law and order, piety, engineering, and fine art. But it was still a terribly brutal civilization by modern standards. In the mid-5th century BC, Rome established its first legal code, the Twelve Tables. Oddly, the code was silent on the subject
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Eerie: Rome’s ‘Chief Exorcist’ Dishes on Exorcisms 0
- July 15, 2016
Even in today’s more secular society—or perhaps because we live in a secular society—the Catholic rite of exorcism still manages to attract a good amount of intrigue and curiosity. Witness, for instance, the success of the movie The Exorcist (1973), which was one of the most profitable horror movies of all time. Catholic priest Fr.
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