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What if Women Had Voted on Women’s Suffrage?0
- Philosophy
- April 23, 2018
G.K. Chesterton’s What’s Wrong with the World contains a section of feminism. By way of providing an accurate preview of what’s to come, he titled it “Feminism, Or the Mistake about Woman.” Yes, G. K. Chesterton had his differences with the feminist movement, then in its infancy. Chief among his differences was the mistaken view
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18 Earth Day Predictions That Were Spectacularly Wrong 0
- Culture
- April 23, 2018
Yesterday (Sunday, April 22) was Earth Day 2018 and time for my annual Earth Day post….. In the May 2000 issue of Reason Magazine, award-winning science correspondent Ronald Bailey wrote an excellent article titled “Earth Day, Then and Now” to provide some historical perspective on the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. In that article, Bailey
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Duke Divinity State of the School Address Interrupted by Rapping LGBTQ Students Who Issue 15 Demands: ‘I am Somebody, and I Won’t Be Stopped by Nobody’0
- Education
- April 23, 2018
The chickens have come home to roost at Duke’s Divinity School. Protesting students claim the school is insufficiently diverse. More needs to be done, they say, to combat racism, transphobia, homophobia, and associated evils. All this despite a campaign by the administration to achieve these very aims in the course of which a distinguished faculty
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Kanye West: Stop Embracing Victimhood and Start Thinking 0
- Culture
- April 23, 2018
Confession time. I’ve never known much about Kanye West. The basic extent of my knowledge runs as follows: He’s some type of musician (a rapper as it turns out – I had to look it up). He’s married to Kim Kardashian. He has a creative sense of humor when it comes to naming his children.
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He Persuaded the Columbine Killers Not to Murder Him 0
- Culture
- April 23, 2018
Nineteen years ago, one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history happened at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Thirteen lives were lost, and 13 families were forever changed. Evan Todd was one of the lucky ones. The first to be shot in the library, he persuaded the shooters not to murder him. “After
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Catholic University Totally Cool with Drag Show! But Don’t Publish a Photo of it 0
- Culture
- April 20, 2018
In 1990 Pope John Paul II, troubled over the decline of traditional religious views on Catholic campuses, published Ex Corde Ecclesiae, an apostolic constitution that aimed to define and reestablish the identity and mission of Catholic institutions of higher learning. Among the document’s many provisions was a call for Catholic universities to foster ”fidelity to
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