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Bestselling Books: 1915 vs. 2015 0
- Culture
- December 30, 2015
Below are Publishers Weekly’s lists of the bestselling books from 1915 and 2015. As you might notice, in 1915 the bestselling books all belonged to the fiction genre: 1915 Bestsellers 1. The Turmoil, Booth Tarkington 2. A Far Country, Winston Churchill 3. Michael O’Halloran, Gene Stratton Porter 4. Polyanna Grows Up, Eleanor H. Porter
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A Job Listing That Confirms Our Fears about Americans 0
- Culture
- December 30, 2015
The Huffington Post unearthed a humorous gem in the want ads the other day. Posting on JournalismJobs.com, a small town Idaho newspaper owner named Dan Hammes offered a reporter job to an individual “who reads.” The description declares: It goes without saying the person we hire will be able to write, spell and edit. What
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Reading Philosophy on Your Own 0
- Uncategorized
- December 30, 2015
Reading philosophy can be tough-going, and ideally, you have an expert to help you through it – at least initially. However, philosophy now has a diminished role in modern curricula, leaving most people to fend for themselves if they want to gain familiarity with the Western philosophical tradition. For those who would like to venture
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Have Women Played a Role in the Feminization of the American Male?0
- Culture
- December 29, 2015
Over Christmas, Business Insider ran an interesting little story written by a young millennial woman turned off by dating apps. Her piece begins by describing a conversation she had about the topic with several friends. The direction of the conversation is rather revealing of today’s culture: “I made my usual comment about how dating apps
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Why We Live in a World of Propaganda 0
- Culture
- December 29, 2015
Among many of Intellectual Takeout’s audience members, there seems to be a presumption that most discourse today is some form of propaganda. Here are three reasons for this presumption, and why it might be grounded—at least in part—in reality: 1) Our technological society. In Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes, philosopher and
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Neuroscientist: U.S. High Schools Are Too Boring for Students 0
- Education
- December 29, 2015
Temple University neuroscientist Laurence Steinberg’s research has shown him that adolescent brains are primed for learning. The problem is, he claims, that most U.S. high schools are not challenging students enough during their adolescent years. As WQED in Pittsburgh reports, Steinberg has spent his career studying the adolescent brain’s development, and has discovered that it
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