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  • Three Harmful Ideas Weakening My Generation

    Three Harmful Ideas Weakening My Generation0

    It’s a tough time for Generation Z. Mental health problems, specifically mood disorders such as depression and anxiety, are skyrocketing. Gen Z is the least likely to report good or excellent mental health and the most likely to report poor or fair mental health. Suicide rates for U.S. teens and young adults are the highest

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  • Artwork Made From Old Bananas Shows Value Is Subjective

    Artwork Made From Old Bananas Shows Value Is Subjective0

    Last week, Miami art gallery Art Basel sold, for $120,000, a piece of art composed of a banana duct taped to a wall. At least one other identical piece sold for a similar amount. A third piece was priced at $150,000. The banana used in the display is a real banana, and on Saturday, a

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  • How Much Can One Person Accomplish in a Day?

    How Much Can One Person Accomplish in a Day?0

    Twenty-four hours, 1,440 minutes, 86,400 seconds. There’s a lot of time in a day: time to be productive and make the most out of life. Rarely, though, do we even come close to pursuing what we ought, or what we actually want, to do. Instead, we spend it on things that we regret. Take TV.

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  • Epstein Scandal Proves Monarchy Is More Answerable to the People Than Democracy

    Epstein Scandal Proves Monarchy Is More Answerable to the People Than Democracy0

    A huge number of famous individuals have been named in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. The late pedophile’s connections included many elected officials like President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, and former Israeli President Ehud Barak. To date, though, there is only one person who has paid a heavy

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  • Kids and Sexuality: Enough Is Enough

    Kids and Sexuality: Enough Is Enough0

    Stop. No, that’s not enough. To paraphrase “the girl” in Hemingway’s story “Hills Like White Elephants,” “Would you please please please please please please please stop?” Second-graders at a swimming pool should not be placed in an adult changing room. Anyone with a grain of sense understands this concept. In Asheville, North Carolina, I used

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  • Life After Flight from Castro’s Cuba

    Life After Flight from Castro’s Cuba0

    When Mercedes (“Mercy”) Rodriguez arrived in America on a fall day in 1979, the first thing she noticed was how clean and wide the streets were. The 15-year-old Cuban refugee had just arrived on a plane carrying nearly a dozen political prisoners, including her father and brothers. They had been blacklisted and then detained for

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