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  • Jordan Peterson’s Simple Advice for High School Students

    Jordan Peterson’s Simple Advice for High School Students1

    • November 7, 2017

    In a recent article for The New York Times, columnist Malcom Harris notes that “November begins the official college application season.” As Harris goes on to explain, this application season is simply the culmination of a long and arduous competition which begins many years before graduation. This competition, he says, plays out in sports, in

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  • The 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season Has Not Been Historically Unusual0

    The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season got an early start with Arlene in April, but the most powerful storms didn’t start to hit until the last week of August, when Hurricane Harvey flooded Texas and Louisiana. Harvey was the first hurricane to make landfall in Texas since Ike in 2008, and the first Category 4 hurricane

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  • Sexual Harassment is Tax-Deductible

    Sexual Harassment is Tax-Deductible0

    • November 6, 2017

    Many of the recent stories about sexual abuse claims against disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly and other powerful actors, journalists and executives mention settlements either they or their employers made to silence women who accused them of misconduct. These settlements often require alleged victims to sign a nondisclosure agreement

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  • Not Every Tragedy Has a Political Solution

    Not Every Tragedy Has a Political Solution0

    • November 6, 2017

    It only took a few hours after the news of the Texas massacre for the New York Times to start its gun-control incantations again. “Republicans leaders in Congress do nothing,” the paper writes. “Or, really, so far they’ve done the same thing they have always done: offered thoughts and prayers.” But here is a truth.

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  • Why Men and Women Can No Longer Be Friends

    Why Men and Women Can No Longer Be Friends0

    • November 6, 2017

    In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein allegations, the quest to stamp out sexual harassment against women has spread like wildfire, not only in the U.S., but also across the pond to our European counterparts. As many women have made clear, unwanted attention from men, particularly when it is the aggressive, Weinstein-esque form of sexual

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  • 5 Strategies for Using Time More Effectively

    5 Strategies for Using Time More Effectively0

    • November 6, 2017

    Cal Newport is the author of two of the most influential non-fiction books of the past decade, So Good They Can’t Ignore You and Deep Work. Recently, he recommended the delightful 1910 book How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by the Englishman Arnold Bennett. While Newport’s work focuses on how to improve our

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