Over coffee in the office, a young acquaintance recently related an experience that exposed the false values of the modern art world. He had gone to an art museum with an older sister. He stood looking at one piece of so-called abstract art. He told his sister, “That doesn’t make sense to me.” An older … Read more
Why is American education constantly redefining itself? Primarily because modern education practices have problems that the educrats can’t or won’t fix. Despite appearances to the contrary, schools know how to raise academic standards, enforce student discipline and prepare students for future challenges. They just don’t want to do those things. Order Today: Return to Order: … Read more
By any reasonable standard, organic chemistry Professor Maitland Jones, Jr. would be a star on any faculty. He literally wrote the book on the subject. His career began at age thirteen, washing test tubes in a Yale University laboratory. He taught at Princeton University for forty-three years. In 2007, he retired from Princeton and moved … Read more
An article in The New York Times talks about courtship. The author, Michal Leibowitz, writes wistfully about arranged marriages. Perhaps, she muses, it is time for them to return. The article “Dating Is Broken. Going Retro Could Fix It” is not particularly uplifting. It carries an amoral and pseudo-practical tone in which traditional practices are … Read more
On April 23, 1968, protestors took over part of Columbia University in New York City. For a week, the national news media was obsessed with the story. Then, on April 30, police broke up the “occupation,” making over 700 arrests. An article from History.com about the uprising concludes, “The 1968 protests… may be long gone, … Read more
On February 24, 2022, Russia sent its troops to invade Ukraine. The whole world watched as the broadcasters speculated about the number of hours it would take for Russia to defeat its smaller neighbor. A Nation on the Edge of Disaster… Then the Ukrainians did something that no one expected. They resisted the Russian attack … Read more
A recent article in The Wall Street Journal caught my attention. “Inflation Widens Married Couples’ Money Lead Over Their Single Friends” informed readers that marriage is a road to riches—or at least comfort. Getting Married to Become Rich? The article contained a remarkable statistic. “The median net worth of married couples 25 to 34 years … Read more
Euthanasia—sometimes known fictitiously as “mercy killing”—became legal in Canada in 2017. The first year saw the law used 2,838 times. Marked increases occurred ever since—4,478 in 2018, 5,425 in 2019 and 7,383 in 2020—the last year for which records are available. If the fatality rates for any disease climb as rapidly, there would be loud … Read more
In February 1972, President Richard Nixon visited China. Millions sat enthralled as television broadcast news of the trip into every American home. Since then, American foreign policy has alternatingly reveled in and been blinded by the glow of those seven days. It is time to remove the blinders. China has never lived up to the … Read more
I just finished reading a New York Times article titled “School is for Everyone.” It promoted the argument that public education is essential to American life. The article’s author, Anya Kamenetz, began with a historical statement relating to Horace Mann—often (and justly) called the father of American public education. The Purpose of Public Education Mrs. … Read more
