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  • Sharing Your Netflix Password Might Now Be a Federal Crime

    Sharing Your Netflix Password Might Now Be a Federal Crime1

    In a recent opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the conviction of a man who used a former co-worker’s password to access information from his previous employer.   Via Reuters: A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday gave the U.S. Department of Justice broad leeway to police password theft under

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  • Orwell on Why Politicians Resort to Euphemisms

    Orwell on Why Politicians Resort to Euphemisms0

    As a few of my colleagues have noted in the past, today’s academic writing is one big farce. Rather than express their ideas in a clear, straightforward way, academics seem to believe they can only prove their intellectual ability by stringing together sentences of pompous words. Unfortunately, the general public furthers this practice by behaving

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  • Harvard Economist: No Racial Bias in Police Shootings

    Harvard Economist: No Racial Bias in Police Shootings0

    Roland G. Fryer Jr. called the finding “the most surprising result” of his career. In a New York Times article published Monday, Fryer, the youngest African-American to receive tenure at Harvard, said his research finds no racial bias in police shootings. Via the Times: The result contradicts the mental image of police shootings that many

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  • 7 Daily Habits from Booker T. Washington

    7 Daily Habits from Booker T. Washington0

    We live in a world that’s increasingly filled with chaotic problems such as poverty, broken families, racial tensions, and political unrest. It’s not unusual for people who find themselves in such situations to react in one of the following ways: Lash out in anger and demand justice. Throw in the towel and seek seclusion in

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  • ‘Why are we so miserable?’

    ‘Why are we so miserable?’0

    Over at Crisis Magazine, Professor Anne Maloney, who teaches philosophy at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota, shared some of what she’s seen happening to young women on college campuses with the advent of the hook-up culture. If it’s an indication of what’s happening more broadly, we may want to start questioning

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  • Study: 1 in 3 History Majors Don’t Take U.S. History

    Study: 1 in 3 History Majors Don’t Take U.S. History0

    The Nation’s Report Card has presented us with a sad reality in recent years: not even half of American high school seniors are proficient in any subject area. There is one subject, however, in which students score worse than all others. That subject is U.S. history. Only 12 percent of American high school seniors attain

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