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  • Junk Science: When Buried Research Kills People

    Junk Science: When Buried Research Kills People0

    The New York Times last month reported on a study completed in 1973, the results of which had gone unpublished until recently. The story, headlined “A Study on Fats That Doesn’t Fit the Story Line,” explored a five-year double blind randomized controlled trial–the best method to determine if one thing causes another, according to Times reporter Aaron

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  • Do Children Learn to Read Better From Their Parents?

    Do Children Learn to Read Better From Their Parents?0

    While paging through The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading, I came across a fascinating little story from author Jessie Wise’s personal experience: “I was adopted by an elderly couple who had been educated in an isolated, rural one-room schoolhouse. By her eighth and final year of school, Meme had studied algebra, Latin, and the

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  • The Zero-Tolerance Police Nab 5-Year-Old Girl

    The Zero-Tolerance Police Nab 5-Year-Old Girl0

    Chalk up another brilliant school suspension to the zero-tolerance police. The perpetrator this time? A 5-year-old with a *gasp* plastic bubble gun. A local news station reports: “The girl’s mother, who goes by Emma, said she was shocked when she got a call from the school telling her she needed to pick up her daughter and

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  • Is Transgenderism Social, Medical or Legal?

    Is Transgenderism Social, Medical or Legal?0

    There is an area of the Atlantic Ocean, called the Bermuda Triangle, within which ships and aircraft vanish without a trace. When it comes to transgenderism all reason and logic disappears within what we might call the Gender Triangle. The Gender Triangle is that area enclosed by the relationships between three distinct models of gender—the

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  • The Hidden Philosophical Message in ‘Gladiator’

    The Hidden Philosophical Message in ‘Gladiator’0

    In Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, the philosophical emperor Marcus Aurelius makes a wonderful appearance. In this poetic portrayal of the truths of history, Marcus Aurelius (played by Richard Harris) chooses the fictional Maximus as his true spiritual heir, because his errant son Commodus is not a man of virtue as his father is. The interesting question is

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  • Is the NFL’s ‘Redskins’ Debate Finally Over?

    Is the NFL’s ‘Redskins’ Debate Finally Over?0

    For decades now the Washington Redskins have received criticism over the team’s name, the idea being that it was insensitive, exploitive, and perhaps racist. The criticism reached a bit of a fever in 2013 during the team’s efforts to retain its trademark status. But instead of caving, the team’s owner, Daniel Snyder, notoriously declared that

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