Culture

True Generosity Involves More than Just Giving 0
- Culture
- May 4, 2018
Who is the most generous person in the world today? Ask folks in the West, and the most popular answer would probably be Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft. For good reason, too. According to Business Insider’s 2015 ranking of the 20 most generous people in the world, Gates comes in first, with $27 billion
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G.K. Chesterton on the Fundamental Difference Between the ‘Average Man’ and the ‘Average Woman’0
- Culture
- May 4, 2018
G.K. Chesterton’s thoughts on the differences between the sexes did not begin and end with the issue of the vote. Far from it. As he saw it, the differences were much more profound and much more mysterious than that. Were these differences rooted in biology or in something else? Was it a matter of nature
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Most Americans Can’t Answer These Four Civics Questions… Here’s One Reason Why 0
- Culture
- May 3, 2018
Pew Research recently ran a report on political engagement in America. What caught my eye was the short, seven-question civics test embedded below. As Pew explains, four of the questions in particular, including those about the Electoral College, presidential term limits, and Senate procedures, reveal a lot about American knowledge of government. Perhaps it’s no
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Screenshot of 2004 Conversation Proves Mark Zuckerberg Never Cared About Your Privacy 0
- Culture
- May 3, 2018
I recently golfed with a friend who works at a large corporation. When the topic of work came up, we swapped stories about our mutual loathing of Facebook. I complained about its algorithm changes, which make it much more difficult to reach our audience. She complained about the mass amounts of personal data her company
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‘Being Informed’ No Longer Means Following the News 1
- Culture
- May 2, 2018
“Being informed” has been regarded as one of the highest virtues in the post-Enlightenment era of the West. And for the majority of this era, “being informed” has largely meant following the news and current events on a daily basis. So much did the ritual of checking the news each morning and evening become part
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Why So Many Intellectuals Fail to Grasp the Nature of the State 0
- Culture
- May 2, 2018
It took me a long time to come to grips with the nature of the state. Once I had done so, at least so far as the fundamentals are concerned, I found it almost amusing to ponder how so many analysts and writers, some of them deep, first-rate thinkers, discuss the matter. For the great
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