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For Teens, Knowing the Past Helps Them Face the Challenges of the Future
- Education, Featured, History, Uncategorized
- April 15, 2025
The other day, this headline from Elizabeth Nickson’s Substack appeared on a website I visit daily: “’Give Us Back Our Fu**ing Money.’ How Washington Stole Everything.” Breitbart ran the following headline the same day: “Kyle Busch Threatens Opposing Driver: ‘I’m Gonna Wreck His A**!’” As reported in the article, that was the mildest of the NASCAR driver’s profanities.
READ MOREA friend of mine recently quit her corporate job to stay home with her two young children. Although the decision was one she’d long wanted to make, it wasn’t necessarily easy, for it meant saying goodbye to co-workers and a company she enjoyed, as well as a reduction in the family budget. It also meant
READ MORERecently my Microsoft 365 subscription updated itself to include the Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistant Copilot, which I now can’t seem to remove from my PC. It insistently offers to take over every time I try to write an email or a Word document. I don’t need or want AI to write my emails and articles
READ MOREA recent Gallup poll revealed that nearly 10% of American adults identify as LGBTQ. That’s a significant jump, as Gallup’s tracking shows that LGBTQ identity was just under 4% a decade ago. This news also suggests the LGBTQ population has basically achieved “tipping point,” the 10% threshold level at which a minority belief gets accepted
READ MOREForty years ago, I read an account of some Americans helping several Germans escape East Berlin by passing them off as U.S. citizens. They provided passports and other papers to the Germans, and outfitted them with Western-style clothing. As the date for their escape loomed, one of the Germans said to their handlers, “Now, you
READ MOREThe internet exploded this weekend over the “scandal” that Elon Musk, the world’s richest man with a net worth of approximately $400 billion, has had yet another child, his 13th, with yet another woman, the fourth to bear his children. His social media platform X titled the trending controversy, “Conservatives Clash Over Celebration of Out-of-Wedlock
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