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Louis CK’s Refreshing View on Politics 0
- Culture
- January 18, 2016
There are those who disagree with you and consider it a duty to willfully ignore any point you might have. And then there are those who disagree with you but are willing to listen, and on some issues, might even be open to changing their minds. Comedian Louis CK falls into this latter category.
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Young Whites ODing at an Alarming Rate 0
- Culture
- January 18, 2016
In a data analysis, the New York Times has discovered that young whites (aged 25-34) are dying from drug overdoses at an alarming rate—five times the rate of 1999. This statistic, coupled with decreasing black young adult death rates, has worked to shrink the once enormous difference between black and white death rates by two-thirds.
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The Implications of NYC’s New Transgender “Guidelines”0
- Politics
- January 18, 2016
Just before Christmas, the City of New York issued new “guidance” for enforcing a 2002 law prohibiting “discrimination on the basis of gender identity or expression.” Some conservative websites interpreted the new guidelines to mean that merely addressing a “transgendered” person by a pronoun of the “wrong” gender could result in a $250,000 fine for
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‘They Will not be Judged by the Color of Their Skin’0
- Culture
- January 18, 2016
Today, the nation celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. who made a tremendous contribution to history. Most young Americans have been familiarized with his work and vision through his “I Have a Dream…” speech from 1963 at the “March on Washington”. Here’s the text of the full speech. Audio is below: A speech does
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Why Many People Are Resorting to Anger in Debates 0
- Culture
- January 15, 2016
It’s extremely frustrating and happens all too frequently: You’re having a conservation with someone over a point of disagreement, and the other person quickly gets angry. End of conversation; end of dialogue. What causes this to happen so often? Why do differences over politics, morality, and worldviews often devolve into anger and hurt feelings? Why
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Maybe the West Isn’t as Secular as We Thought 0
- January 15, 2016
The West stands for secular law while Muslims want to impose a religious Sharia law, right? Not so fast, says Remi Brague, professor of philosophy at the University of Munich. In his essay “Are Non-Theocratic Regimes Possible?”, Brague argues, “The two conceptions of law that face each other [Western and Muslim] both rest on a common
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