Correcting âYouthâs Eternal Temptation to ArroganceââOne Bedtime Story at a Time Children get a wider perspective when theyâre tugged out of the here and now for a little while each day. In an enchanted hour, we can read them stories of the real and imagined past. Meghan Cox Gurdon 13 Jan 2019 · 9 min read
What Can We Learn from Dictators' Literature? Dictators, of course, are terrible people. They also tend to be terrible writers. Yet many tyrants have entertained the illusion that they were literary super geniuses. Mein Kampf and Quotations from Chairman Mao (aka The Little Red Book) are the best-known works in the dictatorial canon, but they represent only Daniel Kalder 14 Dec 2018 · 10 min read
Why Men Can't Write About Sex Anymore âSex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation, and the other eight are unimportant,â was embraced by us all, regardless of gender. Vijai Maheshwari 30 Nov 2018 · 6 min read
Thirty Years After 'The Closing of the American Mind' Relativism, Bloom claimed, âis not a theoretical insight but a moral postulate, the condition of a free society, or so they see it. Jonathan Church 28 Nov 2018 · 5 min read
The Novel Isnât DeadâPlease Stop Writing Eulogies I refuse to be discouraged by the sort of novel-gone-to-the-dogs pessimism that has been around for generations. Gabriel Scorgie 13 Nov 2018 · 9 min read
From To Kill A Mockingbird to Ballet Shoes: A Plea to Save Childrenâs Literature Reading is a gateway to empathy and understanding. Carla Wilson 12 Nov 2018 · 10 min read
Germaine Greer's 'On Rape'âA Review As an answer to the conundrum of consent I donât think much of it. Matthew Scott 5 Nov 2018 · 11 min read
Reasons to Be Fearful Under current social conditions, even the most layered and qualified opinions can be distorted, misrepresented, over-simplified, exaggerated, and generally treated as those of enemies whose voices must be shut down. Russell Blackford 5 Nov 2018 · 5 min read
21 Lessons for the 21st CenturyâA Review The sheer diversity of the topics discussed in 21 Lessons makes boiling the book down into a short summary that does justice to its scope impossible. Spencer Hall 26 Oct 2018 · 8 min read
What Does Genetic Research Tell Us About Equal Opportunity and Meritocracy? Are genetic castes inevitable? Robert Plomin 15 Oct 2018 · 18 min read
From Party of Ideas to Party of Dittoheads Stupidity is not an accusation that could be hurled against such early Republicans as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes. Max Boot 15 Oct 2018 · 10 min read
Moral Pollution In Place of Reasoned Critique They offered many reasons why the person should not be trusted or liked, but failed to offer reasons why the person was wrong. Pamela Paresky 14 Oct 2018 · 13 min read
The Curious Reemergence of Little Platoons Seventy-seven percent of respondents in a recent study from Vanderbilt University rated their political opponents as âless-evolvedâ than members of their own party. Alexandra Hudson 4 Oct 2018 · 4 min read
Helping Children with Autism Since then, the 'autism' landscape has changed: In the early 1970s, autism had not quite emerged from its Dark Ages. Bryna Siegel 2 Oct 2018 · 11 min read
Banned Books Week: 10 Pop Fictions to Annoy the Politically Correct These are the books you should read with great ostentation at sidewalk bistros, corner restaurants, and in doctorsâ waiting rooms. Kevin Mims 26 Sep 2018 · 15 min read
