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The Alarming Findings of a New Study on Transgender Teens and Suicide 0
- Culture
- September 14, 2018
One in every two transgender adolescents who are born female but identify as male has attempted suicide in the past year, according to a new study. The study, “Transgender Adolescent Suicide Behavior,” was published in Pediatrics, the official peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. It raises serious questions about how families, schools, doctors,
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What’s a Girl to Do When a Powerful Man Asks Her to Flirt?0
- Culture
- September 14, 2018
We are so used to the idea that, with a college degree and a packet of contraceptive pills, women are invincible, we are still trying to get our 21st century heads around the #MeToo phenomenon. Over the past year, countless women working in a variety of professions around the world have revealed that the price of
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If You’re Going Through Hell: Some Thoughts 2
- Uncategorized
- September 14, 2018
By hell, I mean neither a trivial bad-hair day nor that bleak circle of hell reserved to the clinically depressed, a condition treated these days with medication and counseling. No—by hell I intend that protracted war in which you are a lone soldier and the forces arrayed against you are as dark and insidious as
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Six Simple Tips for Making Friends 0
- Culture
- September 14, 2018
Loneliness is frequently described in terms of a modern pandemic. A growing body of research indicates loneliness may be worse for your health than obesity or heavy smoking. While most people agree that loneliness is a problem, there’s far less consensus on what to do about it. Modern loneliness has a wide variety of causes.
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The Founders Were Not Education Centralizers 0
- Education
- September 13, 2018
Some of the more zealous partisans of tax-funded schooling have resorted to a curious (and dubious) claim: “America’s Founders are on our side.” The Founders, they say, promoted a government role in education. Therefore, they would have opposed school choice. Retired educator Mary Wilke, a correspondent for the Concord Monitor, recently quoted John Adams—co-author of the Declaration of Independence
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‘Treason’ Is Now a Popular Word – Here’s What It Really Means 0
- Politics
- September 13, 2018
In the furor over the anonymous New York Times op-ed by a Trump administration “senior official,” the word “treason” has been used by a variety of people. President Trump tweeted “TREASON?” in an apparent reference to the op-ed’s author. Trump’s supporters have likewise used the word in attacks on the author – and the newspaper
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