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Book Learning Is Not Enough 1
- Culture
- July 28, 2016
In his preface to The Closing of the American Mind, professor Allan Bloom describes the main goal of education as a mission to help students answer the question, “What is man?” As Bloom goes on to note, many individuals believe that the answer to this question is found in extensive book learning. But Bloom believes
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What Young America learned about Islam 0
- Culture
- July 28, 2016
Currently much controversy surrounds Islam and its compatibility, or lack thereof, with the Western world. To some, Islam is a religion of peace whose adherents desire nothing more than the way of life enjoyed by others in Western nations. To others, Islam has a strong undercurrent of violence and fundamentally conflicts with Western values of
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Is Social Media Tearing Us Apart?0
- Culture
- July 27, 2016
It feels like 1968. How do I know this? Because everyone is saying so. (If you don’t believe me, look at this.) To be fair, there is grounds for the comparison. In 1968, the country was torn by urban violence, civil unrest, and (domestic) terrorism. College campuses were hotbeds and protesting was all the rage.
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Chicago: 75% of Murdered Are Black, 71% of Murderers Are Black 0
- Culture
- July 27, 2016
After hearing about a woman attempting to start a sex-strike in Chicago, ultimately based on the Ancient Greek play Lysistrata, to end the gun violence, we thought it would be good to dig into the numbers a little bit. We wish we hadn’t. Simply put, Chicago has a massive Black-on-Black murder problem. All of the
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People Should Be Able to Calmly Discuss Politics 0
- Culture
- July 27, 2016
There’s a popular pie chart that’s been going around social media for some time now. It furthers the belief that arguing about politics is always and everywhere a futile endeavor: I agree that most political arguments today—both on and off social media—quickly devolve into angry name-calling. But I think this phenomenon says something more about
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What the ancient Greeks would have thought of Donald Trump 0
- Culture
- July 27, 2016
You know them already, but you probably don’t have a name for them let alone an understanding of what drives them and why. They are called cholerics. They are one of the four temperaments identified in the proto-psychology of the ancient Greeks. And they have an innate sense of self-worth and ambition that drives them
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