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Denver’s Anti-‘Lunch Shaming’ Initiative Increased Debt By 2,400%0
- Education
- September 12, 2018
A year ago, Denver Public Schools put an end to “lunch shaming.” No longer would students have the stigma of receiving a sticker reminding them to pay if they had not settled an outstanding lunch bill. Denver promised that all children would receive lunches whether they paid for the lunch or not. The price tag
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Attempt to Diminish Heroism of Alamo Defenders Is a Shameful War on History 0
- History
- September 12, 2018
The next generation of Texans may not care to “remember the Alamo” after a recent decision by the Texas State Board of Education. The Battle of the Alamo, which occurred during the Texas Revolution of the 1830s, is one of the most famed military actions in Texas and American history. Just a few hundred Alamo
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How C.S. Lewis Predicted the PC War on Literature 0
- Culture
- September 11, 2018
What makes for a good book? There are many possible answers: beautiful prose, interesting characters, a well-crafted plot, and so on, all of which contribute to literature’s power to make us feel or experience things in new and different ways. For some, though, a good book is one that aligns perfectly with the reader’s political
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Can Highly Sensitive People Succeed in Parenting?0
- Family
- September 11, 2018
Do you struggle with loud noises? Startle easily? Get immediately overwhelmed by certain environments or find it incredibly difficult to switch off? Chances are you have a High Sensitivity Personality (HSP), or, in scientific terms, you may have Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS). And if you’re an HSP parent, you probably jump out of your skin
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What New York’s 9-11 Memorial Says about Today’s Society 0
- September 11, 2018
The National September 11 Memorial and Museum are deeply ugly. Those two gaping pits, a vision of the abyss, mar that tragic earth. Like gashes that never healed, but rather festered into black necrosis, the 9/11 memorial reveals a sickness; a sickness not of the body but of the soul. That day changed America in
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Mark Knight is Our Best Tabloid Cartoonist. Is His Serena Williams Drawing Racist?0
- Culture
- September 11, 2018
Is the Mark Knight cartoon of Serena Williams racist? It depends on where you sit. Let me start with three opinions: I have long thought Mark Knight the best and most intelligent tabloid cartoonist in Australia. I find it inconceivable that he deliberately sat down to draw a racist cartoon and accept his explanation of
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