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We Need to Stop Pushing Everyone Toward College 0
- Culture
- May 13, 2016
Last year, Pew Charitable Trusts reported that eight in ten Americans are in debt. Much of that debt stems from home mortgage loans, but as a new chart from Slate demonstrates, the last ten years have also seen an explosion in debt from student loans. Such an explosion is not surprising considering the push to
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Famous Journalist in 1920: One Day ‘The White House Will Be Adorned by a Downright Moron’0
- History
- May 13, 2016
In 1920, H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) was becoming one of the more well-known journalists and authors in America. And apparently, like many Americans today, he was disappointed with the choices being offered to the American public in that year’s presidential election. In article published on July 26, 1920, titled “Bayard vs. Lionheart,” Mencken lamented about the
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One Simple Way to Keep Your Child from Being a Reading Statistic 0
- Culture
- May 13, 2016
Between 2011 and 2015 the number of American adults who didn’t read a book in the course of a single year went from 1 in 5 to fewer than 1 in 4. And if fewer American adults are reading, chances are that fewer American children are being read to as well. Such a scenario is
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An Introduction to the Most Mysterious Star in Our Galaxy 0
- Education
- May 12, 2016
It’s easy to look up at a starry night sky and ponder existential thoughts because it is such a natural human emotion to want to know if there’s anything, anyone else out there besides ourselves. Some other sentient, intelligent being that has evolved to the same extent as ourselves; capable of complex thought, emotion, and
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Science Fiction: Why So Many Intellectuals Despise It 0
- Culture
- May 12, 2016
Do you want to rule a world? Blow apart a sun? Test a theory of community? Explore the very depths of depravity? End slavery and misery? Destroy all empires? It is possible. . . At least in the imagination. “The proper study of man is everything. The proper study of man as artist is everything
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Study: Teaching Kids Philosophy Makes Them Smarter 0
- Education
- May 12, 2016
Does teaching younger children philosophy make them smarter? A “large, well-designed study” conducted by the Education Endowment Foundation suggests that the answer is yes. As Quartz reports: “Nine- and 10-year-old children in England who participated in a philosophy class once a week over the course of a year significantly boosted their math and literacy skills,
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