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  • Why the Culture Wars Are Philosophy Wars

    Why the Culture Wars Are Philosophy Wars0

    If you watched the Super Bowl you probably saw, and may even have noticed, the Doritos commercial. It contains a pregnant woman’s ultrasound image of her unborn child. The use of that image provoked a tweet of outrage from NARAL Pro-Choice America: Now you might call humanizing human fetuses an “anti-choice tactic,” but as an

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  • Study: Americans Desire a Long Life, But Many Don’t Want to Work for It

    Study: Americans Desire a Long Life, But Many Don’t Want to Work for It0

    In a literal “eat your cake and have it, too” situation, Americans want to live a long time, but are not doing the legwork to make that happen. The Stanford Center for Longevity and Time conducted a survey of 2,330 American adults and found that 77% wanted to live to be 100. Another third of

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  • College Students Love Civic Engagement, But Hate Free Speech

    College Students Love Civic Engagement, But Hate Free Speech0

    If you want to know where the United States will be in a generation, a look at the attitudes and ideas of today’s college freshmen might give some insight. Yesterday, the Higher Education Research Institute released their annual freshman survey. According to the Washington Post, one of the most interesting things found in the survey

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  • Are Gentlemen a Thing of the Past?

    Are Gentlemen a Thing of the Past?0

    In recent years, it’s become a common complaint of women everywhere that there aren’t any decent men around. Such complaints may be well-founded, particularly as reports increasingly affirm that some groups of women will have greater difficulty finding a spouse. But when looking for a spouse, do women sometimes have an ill-informed view of what

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  • One of Putin’s Favorite Authors on the ‘Antichrist’

    One of Putin’s Favorite Authors on the ‘Antichrist’1

    It is well-known that the Christian Bible prophesies the rise of a false messiah at the end of history known as the “Antichrist.” The prophecy has given rise to many speculations about the character of this Antichrist, speculations which have captured the interest of both believers and non-believers. One of the more famous speculations is

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  • How Financial Knowledge was Taught in 1889

    How Financial Knowledge was Taught in 18890

    On November 22, 1889, Gertrude Jones of Tennyson, Indiana penciled her name into her copy of Complete Arithmetic, a math curriculum book in use at the time. In 2016, the book is now in my possession. It smells delightful, if you’re into old books. Below is Gertrude’s lovely cursive: Complete Arithmetic’s introduction describes the use

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