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Four Reasons Why People Are Choosing Not to Have Children 0
- Family, Culture, MomThink
- June 26, 2024
North Carolina State University Professor (Emeritus) Mike Walden is known for explaining complex issues in ways understandable to the general reader. That is unusual among scholars. Three “economic thrillers” written by Professor Walden and his wife M.E. Whitman Walden, Micro Mayhem (2006), Macro Mayhem (2006) and Fiscal Fiasco (2014), show how they do it. Professor Walden just posted a short, down-to-earth
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Under the Influence of Our Stuff: Lessons From an Old Sears Catalog 3
- Culture, Featured, History, MomThink
- June 25, 2024
We are under the influence of our stuff—home décor and furnishings, fast fashion, modern art, and too much more—and it’s slowly gnawing away at our contentment and human potential. What prompted this realization? Some old Sears catalogs, actually. And a love for antiques, the reason for which I couldn’t quite put into words. But let
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Shareable Snack: Free Speech and the Art of Being Offended 2
- Video
- June 25, 2024
Why are some people offended by everything? Is there an art of being offended? Why purpose do offensive jokes serve? Watch our video to find out! Save this article to favorites
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Is Your Vocabulary Worse Than Your Ancestors’?6
- Culture, Education, Featured
- June 24, 2024
“Are Americans more intelligent than a few decades ago, or less intelligent?” Jean M. Twenge, W. Keith Campbell, and Ryne A. Sherman asked this question in their 2019 paper, “Declines in Vocabulary Among American Adults Within Levels of Educational Attainment, 1974–2016.” To answer one angle of this inquiry, they examined American’s vocabulary over the last
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Arrested by the CCP: ‘Without Freedom, We Have Nothing’0
- International, Politics
- June 24, 2024
When Jimmy Lai was a child working the streets of Canton (Guangzhou), China, in the 1950s, he received a bar of chocolate as a tip for carrying a man’s bags at a train station. Poor and hungry, he immediately bit into the treat. He had never tasted anything like it, and he asked the traveler
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I Was Homeschooled and Became a School Teacher. Here Are Honest Pros and Cons of Learning at Home.2
- Education, Featured, MomThink
- June 21, 2024
It’s true. Sometimes homeschoolers do school in their pajamas. But that wasn’t the norm in my home when I was growing up. Generally, my mother kept us to a set schedule. Piano practice was at 8:15 sharp. Math class started at 9:00. The other subjects fell into place around that. Often, we finished our work
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