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Like the great inventors that have come before us, we all need to evaluate our society and be inventive in our problem solving.
Politics
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We must remain laser-focused on building a consensus around policies that most effectively promote and aid in the achievement of human flourishing, of which education is a fundamental element.
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Prudence, courage, temperance, and justice—the four cardinal virtues. Present throughout Christian and classical traditions both, these four virtues have steered Western thought for millennia, capturing, along the way, the imaginations of humanity’s greatest minds.
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Societal debate is not only inevitable, it is also beneficial in refining ideas and seeking the truth. But everyone involved in this exchange of ideas bears the responsibility to convey messages that are accurate and duly respectful.
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What fills you with contempt? Murderers? People who whistle? Those imbeciles who put the toilet paper roll facing toward the wall? Maybe… liberals? Conservatives?
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After nearly 20 months of campaigning, tomorrow is election day. For most of us, the end of the 2016 election cycle has been long-awaited. To be honest, it is almost an afterthought for me, as I have been largely disengaged from the election for some time.
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America’s diversity should be the source of its solutions for the 21st century. Many err in believing nostalgia or technocracy can unite us. Yet lamenting the present by embracing the past will not prepare us for the future.
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One of the greatest blessings we have as a nation is a history of a representative democracy in which we can take for granted the fact that we have peaceful transitions of power every four years.
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Many Americans fail to understand there is no system set up by the government to invest their money or to provide any return on investment. The money you think you stored in the government "lock box" simply is paid out to current social security benefactors.
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Back in December, just when the real countdown to the primaries was beginning, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that he wouldn’t rule out the possibility of requiring Muslims to wear arm badges so they could be better monitored by the government.