As you well know, at least part of Donald Trump’s campaign success has been due to his slogan “Make America Great Again.” The implication behind the slogan is that America is in decline. After all, as professor Noah Smith pointed out earlier this year, “you can’t ‘make America great again’ unless America isn’t-so-great right now.”
READ MOREA Forbes article recently caught my eye by proclaiming that it is possible to retire in your 30s and travel the world. The article by Laura Begley Bloom went on to describe 33-year-old Anita Dhake, who is already enjoying retirement after spending a handful of years as a lawyer. Because many of us (myself included)
READ MOREOh, how Andrew Carnegie adored creative destruction! How much he hated the past! His 1886 book, Triumphant Democracy,[1] a breathless paean to “the Republic,” feels like a prayer, spoken as much in numbers as in words. Among the words of his prayer, none charms like Equality—none possesses a more explanatory power or expresses such warm devotion. Even
READ MORE1) “Time does not heal all wounds; there are those that remain painfully open.” 2) “If you ask me what I want to achieve, it’s to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.” 3) “Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.” 4) “I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in
READ MOREThe PreK-12 education system is becoming increasingly centralized. As I’ve pointed out before, the number of school districts in America has decreased by over 90% since FDR’s New Deal. With this increased centralization—and the standardized tests that have come with it—teachers have lost a lot of autonomy over their classrooms and what gets taught in
READ MOREToday’s culture rarely references the seven deadly sins rooted in Christianity that had been known to nearly all men of the West for almost 2,000 years. Occasionally, one of the sins may be referenced in pop culture, but to my knowledge the most recent popular reference to them was the movie Seven (1995), a grisly
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