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  • How Jefferson Fostered Rational Thinking in Politics

    How Jefferson Fostered Rational Thinking in Politics0

    April 13 marked the birthday of American hero Thomas Jefferson. Best known for his role in penning the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson also held the rare and prestigious post of President of the United States. His path to the White House, however, was long and contentious, a fact referenced numerous times during the equally bitter

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  • The Income Tax Basically Implies that Government Owns You

    The Income Tax Basically Implies that Government Owns You0

    The income tax is enshrined into law but it is an idea that stands in total contradiction to the driving force behind the American Revolution and the idea of freedom itself. We desperately need a serious national movement to get rid of it – not reform it, not replace it, not flatten it or refocus

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  • Why Do Schools Shut Parents Out of the Classroom?

    Why Do Schools Shut Parents Out of the Classroom?2

    When I was younger, I heard that a sign of a good music teacher was an instructor who welcomed parents to sit in on a child’s lesson. Recognizing the value of this advice, I incorporated it into my own private studio when I began teaching several years later. Sure, it was a bit awkward at

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  • Want to Age Gracefully? Dress Like a Lady

    Want to Age Gracefully? Dress Like a Lady0

    “When I was fifteen years old, I wanted to be a vamp—with a black veil, and a cigarette holder,” Carolina Herrera recalled in an interview with W magazine. “Because I was watching all these fantastic movies with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich and all these very glamorous ladies, so I wanted to look like that.”

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  • Wellesley Student Paper Defends Censorship… with Horrible Grammar

    Wellesley Student Paper Defends Censorship… with Horrible Grammar0

    Critics of political correctness allege that America’s college students are now so immersed in ideological political activism that they are not learning very much. How to write English, for example. Editors at the Wellesley College student newspaper, The Wellesley News, recently wrote an editorial defending the intolerance now sweeping the nation’s universities. Unfortunately, in their

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  • On Syria and the Confusion of Consuming News in the Age of Trump

    On Syria and the Confusion of Consuming News in the Age of Trump0

    We were warned. What would happen? Who could we trust? In the era of fake news, “alternative facts,” insult, and innuendo, when the time came…who was to be believed? In the fog of war–even of limited war and tactical skirmishes–the truth splinters into half-truths, conflicting conclusions, and incomplete accounts. On Tuesday, April 11,2017, the Washington

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