by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 21, 2015 | Culture, Education
The Wall Street Journal recently posted an article discussing whether the college fraternity system should be done away with, in a pro- and con- format. I won’t discuss the details of the debate, because the question alone is sufficient to raise a broader issue....
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 11, 2015 | Culture
A recent interesting (and depressing) article over at Reason on the culture of victimhood mentions overstratification as a phenomenon of the modern PC culture. A writer over at The Daily Beast discusses sexual racism, the idea that having a sexual disinterest in...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 7, 2015 | Culture, Politics
[Kim Davis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Davis_(county_clerk), a county clerk in Kentucky, recently grabbed national headlines because she refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, despite the recent Supreme Court ruling that made gay marriage legal...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 2, 2015 | Culture, Economics, Politics
An Internet friend recently posted a meme that posited the question Why is Denmark the Happiest Place in the World? and offered up “$20 Minimum Wage,” “33 Hour Work Week” and free school, child care and health care as the reasons. This bit of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 27, 2015 | Culture, Guns
As I read an article regarding the difficulty of actually developing a rational and effective policy prescription in response to the Virginia reporter shooting, I kept hearing in my head echoes of the refrain I’ve heard more times than I can count: I don’t...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 25, 2015 | Culture
A story popped up today during my Internet perambulations. It involved a teacher demonstrating the concept of privilege to a classroom. The teacher placed a trash pail at the front of a room of seated students, gave them each a piece of paper, had them crumple that...
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