Do you ever feel that you have access to too much information? Do you ever feel overwhelmed by opinions, statistics, arguments, and facts? Night and day, we are assaulted by emails, headlines, blog posts, text messages, podcasts, phone calls, radio broadcasts, YouTube videos, TV announcements. Our life is lived out to the rhythm of the
READ MOREOne of my more memorable exchanges with a student came in a principles of economics class. Part of the assignment for that week was chapters from Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist. Ridley compared the living standards of an average worker today with those of The Sun King, Louis XIV, in 1700. Some of my more ahistorical students
READ MOREIt seems impossible to deny that powerful forces are conspiring to suppress basic freedoms and impose top-down control over American society. Intelligence agencies team up with Big Tech to censor information, governments are marking political dissidents as “terror threats,” and presidential candidates are hand-picked by party elites. Looking around, I can’t help but feel that
READ MORETwo persistent problems beset American schools. First, teachers must leave the classroom and become administrators or counselors to earn above the standard teacher salary. Second, colleges of education can’t prepare new teachers nearly as well as an apprenticeship under a veteran teacher who has consistently demonstrated mastery of the craft. Thankfully, K-12 education can rework how it prepares new teachers and
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READ MOREEditor’s note: Please note that this article contains discussion of crimes such as sexual assault. We believe the stories, while disturbing even when told with minimal detail, deserve mention and honest reporting. In recent weeks, riots have broken out across the U.K., with rival gangs of native Britons and Muslims clashing. The police response has
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