Category: Opinions

The quick peek at the closest test. The whispering of an answer to the kid in the front row. The reading of the crumpled cheat sheet when the teacher’s not looking. This is what usually comes to mind when one thinks of cheating in school. Students cheat and of course this is a problem with...

When people fill out a ballot, or make any other choice, the decision-making occurs in the frontal lobe of their brain, in a process primarily informed by moral judgements. I learned that this summer from Arthur Brooks, president of a leading think tank, the American Enterprise Institute. He said that the case for conservatism cannot...

Social conservatism, as we know it, is dead. As a self-labeled conservative, it pains me to say this, but the truth is that the days of using religion to justify public policy are over, and the election last week signified the end. Not only was President Barack Obama, the first president in American history to...

I used to like “The Office.” That is, until I found myself in a cubicle of my own and related a little too well with Jim Halpert when he says, “If this were my career, I’d have to throw myself in front of a train.” Last summer I spent three months interning for a nonprofit....

Fiction is dying. In USA Today’s most recent list of the best-selling books in America, seven of the top 10 titles are fiction, yet four of those seven are romance novels and three of the four make up the sadistically themed “Fifty Shades” series. Most of the books on this list seem like the private...