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Practicing Gratitude in the Shadow of the Third Reich 0
- August 7, 2015
German-born Anne Frank is surely the most unusual best-selling teenage author of the 20th century. She penned but one volume, a diary, while hiding from the Nazis during the German occupation of the Netherlands. “How wonderful it is,” she wrote in that tiny hideaway, “that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve
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Alasdair MacIntyre’s Famous Comparison between the Fall of Rome and America Today 0
- Culture
- August 6, 2015
The last paragraph of his renowned work After Virtue: “It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and among the most misleading of such parallels are those which have been drawn between our own age in Europe and North America and the epoch in which the Roman empire
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All Work and No Sleep Makes Jack an Inefficient Employee 0
- August 6, 2015
Are you tired? If the answer is yes, you’re likely not alone. The Washington Post recently reported that the average American gets about 1½ hours less sleep than the average American 50 years ago. Apparently, this lack of sleep has economic consequences: “Research out of Harvard has shown that, for the average worker, insomnia results
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Would You Have Wanted This Curriculum in High School?1
- August 6, 2015
There’s a growing consensus that the curriculum of many American high schools has been dumbed down, and that we need to expect more of our students. In response, some schools are returning to a curriculum that approximates the rigor of times past. One is Trinity School at River Ridge – a private school in Minnesota
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Not Equal?0
- August 6, 2015
In the public mind, sex and gender are now separate, though the terms are often confused. Just to clarify, according to the dominant cultural narrative of our time sex (male or female) is biological while gender (masculine or feminine) is how one identifies. Logically, it gets very messy, especially when considered through the lens of
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Good Luck Deciphering This Academic Gibberish!0
- August 6, 2015
There is a special drudgery to much of academic writing these days. If you think some of it is incomprehensible, it is. But to the writer and a select circle, you are too stupid to understand it. So which one is closer to the truth? Back in the 1990s, Denis Dutton, a respected philosopher out
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