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Are Schools Making Us ‘Intellectually Dependent’?1
- Culture
- June 30, 2016
Not long ago, I wrote about a brief essay called A Message to Garcia. The essay, written in 1899 by Elbert Hubbard, explained how President McKinley instructed a gentleman named Rowan to deliver a letter to General Garcia in Cuba during the Spanish American War. As Hubbard explains, the unique thing about this incident was
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Are Americans Clueless on Why We Celebrate July 4th?0
- June 30, 2016
In the last few years, we’ve seen an extensive push to require high school students to pass a U.S. citizenship test in order to graduate. The most recent data from the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) suggests that this might not be such a bad idea. After testing 8th grade students in subjects such
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The Roman Empire’s Financial Suicide 0
- Economics
- June 29, 2016
More than 2,000 years before America’s bailouts and entitlement programs, the ancient Romans experimented with similar schemes. The Roman government rescued failing institutions, canceled personal debts, and spent huge sums on welfare programs. The result wasn’t pretty. Roman politicians picked winners and losers, generally favoring the politically well connected — a practice that’s central to
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Constitutional Trivia: How much do you know?0
- June 29, 2016
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Why Some Gays Are Trying to drop Transgenders from LGBT 0
- Culture
- June 29, 2016
Are you confused or alarmed at the rise of Transgenderism? You’re probably not alone. In fact, you might even have some unlikely allies not only in the form of radical feminists, but even gays and lesbians who feel it’s time to “Drop the T” from the LGBT movement. In November 2015 a group of gay
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Geniuses Possess This One Common Trait 0
- Education
- June 29, 2016
James Gleick has written about some of the most distinguished minds in history. As a former science reporter at the New York Times, he profiled some of the most brilliant people in the world. He’s written biographies of Isaac Newton and Richard Feyman. His most recent book—The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood—examined the
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