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Psychologists: Boredom is Good for Children 0
- Culture
- June 15, 2016
When I was eight years old, a little girl near my age moved into the house across the street. She, my sister, and I clicked immediately. The girl was, however, an only child with two working parents. As such, she spent her summers in a profusion of camps and activities, leaving little time for play.
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Superficial Tolerance Isn’t Helpful 0
- June 15, 2016
I have to admit, I’ve always been annoyed by the “COEXIST” bumper sticker, a picture of which I’ve included above. It’s not that I wholeheartedly disagree with the message. I do indeed believe that people of different religious faiths should be peaceful toward each other. But at the same time, there’s an underlying sentiment to
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Did Truman Capote Write ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’?3
- Entertainment
- June 15, 2016
Over cocktails a few weeks ago, I was discussing literature with friends. Conversation inevitably swung to which book had the strongest claim as “the Great American Novel.” Huck Finn immediately sprang to my mind, which I quickly changed. It’s a tie, I said. Gone with the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird. A no-brainer. Neither
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13 Virtues in the Ben Franklin Code of Morality 0
- Culture
- June 15, 2016
I recently wrote how Ben Franklin had a strong aversion to church services, despite the fact that he believed in God. This posed a practical problem to him. Franklin took morality seriously and he found himself wondering how he could possibly complete his “bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection” minus the structure
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Ladies: The Draft is Coming 0
- Culture
- June 15, 2016
UPDATE: The section of the Senate legislation, detailed below, that would have required women to register for the draft was later removed. However, the question of drafting women for miliary service remains alive, as in February of 2019, federal judge Gray Miller ruled that “the all-male military draft is unconstitutional.” The New York Times reports: In the latest and
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Fathers: Not as Worthless as We’ve Been Told 0
- Culture
- June 15, 2016
Over 300 years ago, philosopher John Locke presented a little nugget of advice for fathers in his work called Some Thoughts Concerning Education. He noted: “The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge, which would be of more advantage to them, than an hundred rebukes and chidings. Would your
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