High School Reading Becoming Simpler: Surprised?

High School Reading Becoming Simpler: Surprised?

By Samuel Klee We’ve all heard it—life is far easier now than “back in the day” when our grandparents were young. I admit, those words may contain some degree of truth; at school, research no longer requires laborious pilgrimages to musty library crypts, and I shall...
Hooking Up in Shakespeare’s World

Hooking Up in Shakespeare’s World

By Gina Dalfonzo | The Atlantic | Drunken One-Night Stands Don’t Fit in Shakespeare’s World, Yet Joss Whedon put one in his new adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing. Here’s why it doesn’t work. In Joss Whedon’s otherwise delightful new...
I Mean Business

I Mean Business

By Jason Fertig | Many courses teach about business, but not how to actually do it. As a professor in a business school, each semester I strive to make my courses relevant for students.  For readers who are not well-versed in the ins-and-out of B-Schools, my admission...
Marrying Young: Point/Counter-Point

Marrying Young: Point/Counter-Point

Compiled by Prof. Jack Lewis | As our society argues over the defining of marriage, it is also arguing over when to enter into that relationship as well.  The following articles consider both marrying young and waiting from differing perspectives.  Both are from...
Who Is Racist?

Who Is Racist?

By Thomas Sowell | I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white. Apparently other Americans also recognize that the sources of racism are different today from what they were in the past. According to a recent Rasmussen poll,...