Politics

Educating to Serve 1
- Politics, Culture
- March 6, 2023
Doom and gloom headlines are a dime a dozen these days, as people in the media continue to fixate on the problems in Washington, crime on the streets, and tragedies abroad. Thus it was that the following headline in the Minneapolis Star Tribune caught my eye for the simple reason that it focused on something positive and
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The Clock Is Ticking for America 4
- Politics, Culture
- March 2, 2023
Yeonmi Park’s new book, While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector’s Search for Freedom in America, is a broadside against current American political indoctrination, which is a propaganda campaign that reminds Park of her adolescence spent living in a “dictatorship of the mind.” Park’s first book, In Order to Live, recounted her impoverished and brutal
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What Thomas Jefferson Meant by ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’4
- Politics, History
- March 2, 2023
The idea of the “pursuit of happiness” is in our societal DNA. Yet, this “unalienable right,” immortalized in the Declaration of Independence, has often puzzled people. What exactly did Jefferson mean? Most people think of happiness as feeling good, but that is not what Jefferson meant. Pleasure and happiness are not the same. Our happiness
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Western Leftists Loved Stalinism and Maoism, Despite Their Horrors 1
- Politics, Economics
- March 1, 2023
I recently had the opportunity to travel to the Texas Tech University School of Law to debate the merits of capitalism versus socialism with Ben Burgis, a columnist for Jacobin and philosophy instructor at Georgia State University Perimeter College. It was a riveting discussion, and I hope students left with not just a better understanding of the horrors
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Need Inspiration? Just Look Around 2
- Politics, Culture
- February 28, 2023
Dreams, determination, talent, and guts are critical to be successful in the world of sports. From the Olympic gymnast to the star quarterback of a high school football team, all good athletes possess these attributes. Since elementary school, they have spent countless hours chasing their ambitions, developing their skills, and learning the ins-and-outs of their
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American Girl and the Historical Nostalgia Trap 2
- Politics, Culture
- February 27, 2023
While checking out Twitter the other day, I happened to notice that “American Girl” was trending. A fan of the pricy doll collection as a child, I clicked on the trend to see what was up. To my surprise, American Girl was announcing a brand new pair of “historical” dolls, twins Isabel and Nicki hailing
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