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The Heart of the Matter: Families and Fatherhood 0
- Culture
- January 15, 2019
In “Back To Discipline: Disparate Impact Reflects Disparate Reality”, Heather MacDonald applauds the Federal Commission on School Safety’s repudiation “of disparate-impact analysis.” She writes: Disparate-impact analysis holds that if a facially-neutral policy negatively affects blacks and Hispanics at a higher rate than whites and Asians, it is discriminatory. Noticing the behavioral differences that lead to
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How are Humans Different Than Animals? Don’t Bother Asking a Scientist.1
- Education
- January 15, 2019
When the question of how human beings are different from other animals comes up, scientists begin to display a disturbing handicap in answering it. The theory of evolution, whatever else might be said about it, seems to constrain their answers to ones of mere differences of degree. Humans, they say, are more this way or
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Here’s What Happens when the Gender-Gap Index Is Adjusted for Bias 0
- Education
- January 15, 2019
The apparently neutral phrase, “gender inequality,” is not neutrally understood in our society. It normally conjures up women’s lower numbers in male-dominated corporate directorships and STEM professorships or other high-status domains that are in fact accessible only to a sliver of the male population, never mind the narrower female sliver. Social scientists allegedly strive for
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Meat-eating Made Homo Sapiens Brainy and Brawny 0
- Culture
- January 14, 2019
While it may well be that veganism is “no longer relegated to the fringes of society where for so long it was mocked for being ‘weird’ or ‘extreme’,” it still seems a stretch to say, as a Forbes article did a year ago, that “veganism is going mainstream” and “vegan living is starting to become the norm.”
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Why Steve Jobs, not Bill Gates, Was the True Education Visionary 0
- Family
- January 14, 2019
When it comes to education reform, there are generally two camps: those who want to improve the existing mass compulsory schooling system through tweaking and tuning and those who want to build something entirely new and different. Not surprisingly, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was in the “think different” camp, advocating for school choice and vouchers,
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Trump May Be Down, but He Shouldn’t Be Counted Out.0
- Economics
- January 14, 2019
Trump’s lack of popularity is no surprise. Of course, he has brought much of this on himself. With the help of a hostile media, it is understandable why he can’t seem to break the 45 percent ceiling. The result has been predictions of an imminent loss of the White House by Republicans, and that explains
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