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Fate and Accountability: The Choice Makes Us Who We Are 0
- Culture
- September 11, 2019
In “The Appointment In Samarra,” his brief retelling of a an ancient Mesopotamian tale, W. Somerset Maugham offers this look at fate: Death speaks: There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now
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New Monopoly Game Gives Women More Money Than Men 0
- Culture
- September 11, 2019
Hasbro officially brought the gender pay gap to game night with its new feminist version of Monopoly called “Ms. Monopoly.” The new version of the classic board game comes with new rules: Women players will collect $240 in Monopoly money while male players will only collect $200. Women also collect $1,900 in Monopoly money from the banker player at
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I Remember 0
- Culture
- September 11, 2019
I was in the air when the first tower was hit; I watched the two towers fall, stupefied and enraged, alone in my hotel room in Norfolk. After my business was done, I went to the eerily quiet Norfolk airport to begin the drive home. I remember watching contrails in the sky driving across Virginia,
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The Myth of the Declining Polar Bear Population 0
- Politics
- September 10, 2019
Many of us watched the viral video in horror. A starving polar bear scavenging for food on barren land, his ribs visible beneath a jaundiced white coat. “This is what climate change looks like,” said National Geographic. The magazine explained that because of melting sea ice, precipitated by climate change, more of these mammals are
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What Explains Modern Hostility to the Family?0
- Culture
- September 10, 2019
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How to Change Victimhood Culture in a Few, Short Years 0
- Culture
- September 10, 2019
My father lost his job while I was in grade school. Due to an economic downturn and attempts to start a business, my family lived without a regular paycheck for over two years. It was rough. We tightened our belts and became experts in frugality. But one doesn’t feel the big pressures of economic distress
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