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I’m a High School Senior. We Can Make Schools Safer Without Curbing Gun Rights.0
- Politics
- March 22, 2018
Since the shooting in Parkland, Florida, students across the country have shown support for increased restrictions on gun ownership, and the media has given these students massive amounts of attention. As an 18-year-old who supports the Second Amendment, I can’t help but notice that teens who share my beliefs are being largely ignored. Almost all
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You Married the ‘Wrong One’ – Now What?0
- Culture
- March 22, 2018
Kate Emory married “the wrong man”, and she thinks she’s not alone. A recent survey “revealed that a third of married Britons have regrets about their marriage, 1.4 million admit that they married the wrong person, while more than 1.2 million are only staying in it for the children and would soon tick every single box.”
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Why Father Figures Are Important to Boys (And Why This Idea Is Suddenly Controversial)0
- March 22, 2018
I’ve taught a weekly, inner-city preschool class for some years now. Currently, the class make-up is one-quarter girls and three-quarters boys. Two members of this boy monopoly are a particularly dynamic duo, known for their grand (i.e. loud) entrances, boisterous singing, and penchant for asking to use the bathroom at the most inconvenient times. They
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A History of Loneliness 0
- Culture
- March 21, 2018
Is loneliness our modern malaise? Former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says the most common pathology he saw during his years of service “was not heart disease or diabetes; it was loneliness.” Chronic loneliness, some say, is like “smoking 15 cigarettes a day.” It “kills more people than obesity.” Because loneliness is now considered a
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Romanticism Is Killing Marriage. Is it Time to Rethink Some Things?0
- Culture
- March 21, 2018
Today, arranged marriages are almost unheard of in the U.S. and Europe, though it remains a fairly common practice in many Eastern countries, including India, China, and Japan. To the modern mind, the very notion of an arranged marriage is somewhat antithetical to both our ideological values (individual choice) and romantic concepts (“true love”). For
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8 Times Law-Abiding Citizens Saved Lives With an AR-15 0
- Culture
- March 21, 2018
“Why would any law-abiding citizen need an AR-15?” This question has been a favorite talking point of gun control activists in recent months, grating the ears of many lawful owners of the popular semi-automatic rifle. Never mind that rifles of any kind account for only a fraction of gun deaths every year, or that some
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