Book Review: ‘National Treasure’ by Michael Auslin
by Mark Franke With the semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence, there are a lot of new books written about this major event. Most focus on the Declaration’s language and its meaning, especially its most memorable sentence in the second paragraph. One historian, Stanford’s Michael Auslin, has taken a refreshingly different approach by telling the Read the full article…
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A Murder Most ‘Random’ IT WAS MY FAULT. Even after a gracious interview with a Capital Chronicle columnist, Stacey Compton, I didn’t get my point across, the ideological gap being just too wide. I wanted to object to the reflexive description in recent murder stories of black-on-white violence as “random.” It is anything but that. In its statistical context, the word means “being Read the full article…
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The Fraud of Official Art “Whenever I hear the word ‘culture,’ I reach for my Lugar.” — Hermann Göring THE MAYOR this week unveiled “The Garner,” our city’s latest acquisition of outdoor art. It is shown above so you can judge for yourself but let me say I find it hopelessly abstruse. It took even the artist himself, Sacho Primo, Read the full article…
Eichenberger: Father’s Day
by Dan Eichenberger, M.D. With Father’s Day approaching, the cultural conversation about men, fathers, and masculinity deserves more care than slogans usually allow. This is a season when many families pause to honor fathers, grandfathers, mentors and father figures whose steady presence has shaped lives in quiet but lasting ways. For that reason, the way society Read the full article…
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Alternative Families by the Numbers THE GOVERNOR is getting grief over declaring June “Nuclear Family Month.” Does he think there’s something wrong with non-nuclear families? Well, there’s a two-part answer to that, and some aren’t going to like the second part. First, let’s acknowledging that raising a family, any family, is a heroic endeavor. Raising a family as a single Read the full article…
McGowan: Does Science Shortchange Women and Girls?
by Richard McGowan, Ph.D., and Gary McGowan, Ph.D. In 1996, we presented a paper at a conference arguing that “science textbooks do not present an accurate account of how scientific inquiry was conducted and is conducted now.” Subsequently, our paper, “Attribution, Cooperation, Science, and Girls,” was published. We focused on textbooks for chemistry, G. McGowan’s Read the full article…
