Teacher friends report to me that kids either refuse or cannot to read anymore.  There is increasing pressure on high school literature class to use short excerpts of great works rather than have...

As the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has developed, the narrative has become, Russia=Bad Guy, Ukraine=Good Guy.  I think this is based mostly on the fact that Russia was the initial military...

It is tempting and easy to want to parallel France and America.  Both fought revolutions around the same time to throw off what they viewed as monarchical tyranny.  But the revolutions were quite...

Way too many people these days think that some political outcome represents an existential crisis.  I cannot help but wonder if they have thought about what actually constitutes an existential...