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    • Why are Colleges Banning ‘Any Product that Looks like a Cigarette’

      Why are Colleges Banning ‘Any Product that Looks like a Cigarette’0

      In this age of campus speech codes and safe spaces, are we really surprised that some university administrators act as moralistic tyrants over their student fiefdoms? The movement for a tobacco-free campus is no different. University officials around the United States are waging a war on the evil smoking “culture.” Consider the anti-tobacco policy of

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    • Ben Franklin on the Value of Rational Debate

      Ben Franklin on the Value of Rational Debate0

      When students in a maximum security prison education program beat out West Point cadets in a debate competition a while back, the story made headlines because of its almost man-bites-dog nature.  West Point debate coach Adam Scher recently responded to the phenomenon in an opinion piece for The Washington Post. As Scher implies, debate competitions

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    • 12 Times Calvin and Hobbes Taught Us about Philosophy & Religion

      12 Times Calvin and Hobbes Taught Us about Philosophy & Religion0

      As you may know, Calvin & Hobbes contains religious and philosophical significance in its very title. In a nod to his political science classes in college, creator Bill Watterson named Calvin after John Calvin, the 16th-century theologian and reformer, and Hobbes after the 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Here are 12 times that philosophy and religion spilled

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    • 3 ‘Bad Loves’: When Freud and Christian Theology Actually Agree

      3 ‘Bad Loves’: When Freud and Christian Theology Actually Agree0

      Love is perhaps the greatest emotion humans can feel. It’s generally viewed as a positive concept, but philosophers, literature, and psychologists have long attempted to show that love of the wrong things in the wrong ways is a great vice. The philosopher Mortimer Adler, in his book The Great Ideas, identified three types of “bad

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    • The Woman Who Warned the World about Hitler

      The Woman Who Warned the World about Hitler0

      Some people can smell a rat a mile away. Others don’t notice even when the odor wafts right under their noses. Olfactory proficiency by itself doesn’t make you a hero. But if you’re among the first to pick up the scent and warn others, and then you put your political future on the line to

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    • The Key Thing That Differentiates Ancient and Modern Schoolteachers

      The Key Thing That Differentiates Ancient and Modern Schoolteachers1

      In recent years, America’s schools have attempted to train teachers of the highest quality. To ensure quality, teachers are trained to know the latest and greatest theories and philosophies in child development, lesson planning, and teaching technique. But in our rush to educate these teachers in the latest and greatest education philosophies, have we overlooked

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