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  • Blame Terrorism On Engineers and Conservatives?

    Blame Terrorism On Engineers and Conservatives?0

    Apparently, we’ve been missing the secret decoder ring that would reveal the true psychological profile of Islamic terrorists. It’s not really Islam, or even a propensity for mayhem. It’s the need for “cognitive closure.” That habit of mind, along with others that psychologists closely associate with it, gives us the key clue—at least according to

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  • Feminist Icon Eviscerates the GOP Candidates

    Feminist Icon Eviscerates the GOP Candidates0

    Camille Paglia has risen to fame as one of the premiere academics and social critics in America. Though a liberal and feminist, she has proven herself unafraid to challenge the orthodoxies of her party and progressivism. Writing in Salon this week, Paglia, a Bernie Sanders supporter and contributor, explained why she cannot support Hillary Clinton.

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  • How SpellCheck and AutoCorrect are Destroying Kids’ Grammar

    How SpellCheck and AutoCorrect are Destroying Kids’ Grammar0

    One thing school-aged parents can agree upon is their dissatisfaction with the lack of writing instruction their children receive in grade school. Writing rules, language arts, essay composition, sentence structure, punctuation, style—all of these things have come up in casual conversations with parents you bump into at the store, in the parking lot, and on

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  • Frog and Toad: Arnold Lobel’s Little Gems

    Frog and Toad: Arnold Lobel’s Little Gems0

    Every child should read Arnold Lobel’s stories of Frog and Toad. These stories are pure, unashamed delight. Once upon a time, all children’s stories were a pleasant romp, an indulgence in something lovely. Think of Mother Goose, The Wind in the Willows, The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pan. As our times have

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  • Former Teacher: 7 Ways Schools are Creating ‘Empty’ Children

    Former Teacher: 7 Ways Schools are Creating ‘Empty’ Children2

    In the early 1990s, New York Teacher of the Year, John Taylor Gatto, threw in the towel on teaching with his famous I Quit, I Think  letter to the Wall Street Journal. Gatto’s reason for quitting was simple. He could no longer justify teaching “a curriculum of confusion, class position, arbitrary justice, vulgarity, rudeness, disrespect

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  • If Parents Stopped Enabling Their Kids, Maybe There Wouldn’t be as much Student Loan Debt

    If Parents Stopped Enabling Their Kids, Maybe There Wouldn’t be as much Student Loan Debt0

    A recent Star Tribune article nails a major issue in the student debt crisis: Too many parents are enabling their children by helping them take out massive loans for colleges they can’t afford. This has caused a lot of young people to cripple their financial futures in pursuit of a goal many later discover was

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