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April 2017

April 20, 2017

Gender-theorying school uniforms?

The above picture is from our trip to London last summer, where it seemed like,...

April 19, 2017

Income inequality, juice edition

How much would you pay for a glass of juice, to be consumed in your...

April 19, 2017

Census update: racial (bean-)counting

From the National Review Corner, citing the Heritage Foundation, on proposed changes to the census...

April 19, 2017

Dysfunctional Japan, again: school bullying

Some time ago, I wrote about the Japanese phenomenon of hikikomori, teen boys and young men...

April 18, 2017

Easter update from the Mitten

Here's just a bit of a catch-up; as you might have guessed from my lack...

April 13, 2017

So, the dairy industry has a point, actually

Take a look in your freezer. Is there ice cream in there? Or is it...

April 12, 2017

History buffs: why didn’t Hitler use poison gas on the battlefield?

That's a post title that I wrote after Sean Spicer said, "even Hitler didn't use...

April 11, 2017

Notre Dame offers 65 merit scholarships

Which is 65 more than I thought they did. Sure, this is just a bit...

April 11, 2017

The Bible Answer Man!

Back years ago, when I drove into the office every day, before I had kids,...

April 10, 2017

(Not) flying the friendly skies

A United flight is overbooked. For some unidentified reason, the crew has allowed all the...

April 08, 2017

Who are the lost sheep?

Because, you know, Jesus compared himself to a shepherd, leaving the 99 to search for...

April 07, 2017

Cupich says we should all just pack up

that is, if Chicago-area churches aren't actively involved in anti-poverty programs in the city. (Per...

April 07, 2017

“Everyone belongs to everyone else” and the American hook-up

The "hook-up," as practiced on American college campuses, has changed. That's what Lisa Wade reports...

April 06, 2017

is this a dirty little secret about universities and community colleges?

Something that I've learned in trying to find out more about merit scholarship opportunities: they're...

April 06, 2017

Holocaust, Memory, and Memoir

I just finished a Holocaust memoir, The Seamstress, by Sara Tuvel Bernstein with Louise Loots...

April 05, 2017

Mom’s list of 10 things to consider in college selection

As in, I'm Mom, and this is the list I started as a way of...

April 05, 2017

Puparazzo, part 2

So, two years and some months ago, I posted some of my then-2nd grade son's...

April 04, 2017

Could Staff Model HMOs rise from the dead?

I've thought, off and on, about the Staff Model HMO concept -- that is, the...

April 03, 2017

My latest family history (non-)discoveries

Not long ago, I wrote about my discovery that the answer to all our family...

March 2017

March 28, 2017

About the “fearless girl”

She's standing up to something. What? She's standing firm against a bull, about to charge...

March 27, 2017

Tell me about your health insurance

Just curious - we all form our opinions only partly by what we read in...

March 26, 2017

Where does insurance end, and social insurance begin?

Insurance: a financial product in which a consumer buys a policy promising payment in the...

March 25, 2017

Veni, vidi, addixi: RIP, Ryancare

So it's official: the GOP has had so little support for the "American Health Care...

March 23, 2017

They’ve caught the bomb threat hoaxer! (and: can you be a Jewish anti-semite?)

They've caught the individual believed to be responsible for hoax bomb threats on JCCs, not...

March 21, 2017

American Culture, American Values, and Immigrants

Can we preserve American culture, and American values, with "other people's babies"? Representative Steven King...

March 20, 2017

Are you watching “This is Us”?

Spoiler alerts, for those who care about these sorts of things. I have to admit...

March 20, 2017

It’s the complacency, stupid! My new pet theory on secularism

Sure, there's probably tons written about this in the academic literature, but remember, I'm just...

March 17, 2017

Do you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day?

Yeah, just a question. No agenda. Open forum -- do you celebrate? If so, why?...

March 17, 2017

Education is not a (positive) human right

Perhaps you remember this from history class in school: in the system of slavery as...

March 16, 2017

What else we lose when we’re “losing my religion”

New, must-read article in The Atlantic, by Peter Beinart: "Breaking Faith; The culture war over...