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Decentralization: The Secret of Swiss Success 0
- Culture
- July 13, 2016
Programs about the improbable success of Chile and Estonia already have aired on nationwide TV, and those were joined last weekend by a show about the “sensible nation” of Switzerland. Here’s the 28-minute program. When I first watched the program, I was slightly irked that there was very little discussion of the role of fiscal policy and the importance
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hope for the Modern World 0
- History
- July 13, 2016
Clyde Kilby, an English professor from Wheaton College, worked with Tolkien in the summer of 1966. “Tolkien was an Old Western Man who was staggered at the present direction of civilization,” Kilby recorded after a summer of conversations with Tolkien. “Even our much vaunted talk of equality he felt debased by our attempts to ‘mechanize
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Can You Answer These 8th Grade History Questions From 1908?0
- Education
- July 13, 2016
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Why People are so Crazy for Pokémon Go 1
- Culture
- July 13, 2016
Like a lot of America, I’ve just become aware of the Pokémon Go craze. Apparently, the free app was just released on July 6, and its popularity has already led to servers crashing. For those who are still in the dark about Pokémon Go, here’s the gist of it: It terms itself a “location-based augmented
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Solzhenitsyn, Suffering, and the Meaning of Life 1
- History
- July 13, 2016
“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn Older readers will hardly need reminding of
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Philosopher Explains Why We Protest. All. The. Time.0
- Culture
- July 13, 2016
I arrived to work this morning to news that 40 or 50 protestors had blocked a local highway during rush hour in protest of last week’s killing of Philando Castile. Similar protests are taking place across the country, yet protests have become so prevalent that we tend to scarcely notice them unless it directly
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