Culture

Most Americans Can’t Pass a Basic Citizenship Test. Here’s Why We Should Be Worried.0
- Culture
- February 20, 2019
Can a nation survive ignorant of its past? We are testing that very question right now. According to a recent survey by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, most Americans would fail a basic citizenship test. Axios published a roundup of how participants performed. The results weren’t good. People did relatively well on the most basic questions. Seven
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Teaching Children ‘No’ in the Era of #MeToo 0
- Culture
- February 19, 2019
Children aren’t born knowing what no means. You have to teach them. But how? For starters, you have to know what it means yourself. Most people seem to think no means something such as: “I say no and the other person will obey me because they will realize the sacredness of my person.” While that
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Why Stress Is One of the Best Predictors of High Life Satisfaction 0
- Culture
- February 19, 2019
My life is messed up, why can’t I get my act together? Most of us have heard a variation of this talk track in our heads, or we’ve heard it from others. If only, we think, I didn’t have this problem, then everything would be all right. We feel burdened by what seems to be
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Why the “Golden Rule” is an Obstacle to the Government’s Agenda 0
- Culture
- February 19, 2019
The golden rule—“Do to others as you would have them do to you” being the most common variant I have heard–may be the most common ethical touchstone for human interactions. After all, Simon Blackburn wrote in his 2001 book, Ethics, that the Golden Rule is “found in some form in almost every ethical tradition.” I doubt
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What the Magic Kingdom and American Culture Have in Common 0
- Culture
- February 18, 2019
Americans need not visit Orlando to go to Fantasyland. Instead, we can just pop onto the Internet and visit websites offering news and commentary. Day after day these sites trot out delusions concocted and entertained by some of our fellow citizens. If we could construct airships from these flights of fancy, we could touch down
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Report on Covington Students Finds ‘No Evidence’ of ‘Offensive or Racist Statements’0
- Culture
- February 18, 2019
A report that examined the January encounter between students from Covington Catholic High School and a Native American activist near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington found “no evidence” of “offensive or racist statements.” “We see no evidence that students responded with any offensive or racist statements of their own,” the report dated Feb. 11 from the
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