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We Weren’t Made for Endless Work 0
- Culture
- September 24, 2018
It only took a moment. The smartphone was somewhere in the grass, forgotten. Our hands and jeans were covered in smears of purple and green sidewalk chalk. My two-year-old daughter and I were busy drawing roads and buildings on a square of pavement—here a library, there a post office, with our house around the corner.
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Diversity Ideology Killed the University. Now, It’s Choking Out Civilization.0
- Culture
- September 24, 2018
In 1903, during America’s darkest period of hate, W. E. B. Du Bois heartbreakingly affirmed his intellectual affinity with Western civilization. “I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas,” Du Bois wrote in “The Souls of Black Folk.” “I summon Aristotle and
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Schools Are Tracking Your Child’s Mental Health—Whether You Like It or Not 0
- September 24, 2018
A worrying trend is emerging in schools across the country. With increasing regularity, school districts are tracking students’ mental health and raising flags if a screening shows something amiss. Student mental health tracking is often framed in terms of safety or prevention, arguing that all kids should be screened to identify the few who
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How to Spot Misleading Statistics in the Gun Control Debate 1
- Culture
- September 24, 2018
The academic debate over gun control consists mainly of a war of statistics. New studies come out every few weeks, and as a result, both sides are constantly locking horns over the validity or invalidity of this-or-that study in this-or-that country. For those who aren’t formally trained in data analysis, this debate can seem impossible
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Why It Matters That Bert and Ernie Are Friends, Not Lovers 0
- Culture
- September 24, 2018
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Free Student Seminar: Is College Worth It?0
- Culture
- September 21, 2018
Generations of Americans have been told that college graduates earn more than non-college graduates. This may have been true in 1998, but is it still true in 2018? In Seattle’s booming IT industry 25% of employees don’t have a Bachelor’s! Today’s college grads often leave school with a student loan burden so massive it effectively
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