728 x 90



Search Results For ''

  • More Americans Today Really Need to Read the Anti-Federalist Papers

    More Americans Today Really Need to Read the Anti-Federalist Papers0

    • September 15, 2015

    Last week, we took a look at several important quotes from the Federalist Papers, a collection of writings composed to support the adoption of the U.S. Constitution of 1787. However, the adoption of the Constitution wasn’t necessarily a smooth path. A number of arguments and cautions against the Constitution were offered in the months preceding

    READ MORE
  • This Clip Shows the Paradox of Western “Individualism”

    This Clip Shows the Paradox of Western “Individualism”0

    • September 14, 2015

          As summarized by Hillsdale College English professor Dwight Lindley: ?”At one point in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, the ridiculous protagonist finds himself at an upper window, addressing a large crowd of determined, sheeplike followers: ‘You don’t need to follow me,’ he cries. ‘You’ve got to think for yourselves. You’re all individuals!’ To which

    READ MORE
  • The Potential Problems with Universal Pre-K

    The Potential Problems with Universal Pre-K0

    • September 14, 2015

    It always seems like there is some new panacea being promised for the nation’s educational woes. At one time, that panacea was No Child Left Behind, then Race to the Top… and in the last several years, universal preschool. Endorsed by high-profile politicians such as Hillary Clinton and President Obama, more and more states are

    READ MORE
  • Why Modern America Might Have the Most Equality It Ever Had

    Why Modern America Might Have the Most Equality It Ever Had0

    • September 14, 2015

    We hear a lot about equality these days: equality in income, education, marriage, gender, race, class – the list could go on. Judging by many of the complaints which come from various interest groups, one would assume that the inequality of Americans is actually increasing as time goes on. But are things really that bad?

    READ MORE
  • The Emerging Victimhood Culture is Scary

    The Emerging Victimhood Culture is Scary0

    • September 14, 2015

    By now you’ve most likely heard about the increasingly sanitized, PC culture that is coming to predominate on college campuses. And on a weekly basis you witness a public figure self-immolate in an attempt to quell the frenzied demand of a mob for an apology. So what’s going on? A recent scholarly paper from Bradley

    READ MORE
  • Other Things Have a Purpose… Why Not Human Beings?

    Other Things Have a Purpose… Why Not Human Beings?0

    • September 14, 2015

    In the relativist climate of our postmodern world, it’s becoming more typical to believe that human beings have no single, ultimate purpose – that “purpose” is something purely determined by the will of each individual.  But in the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle contended that just as other things have a purpose for which they are made, or a

    READ MORE