Category: Society

There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.

What is Mankind’s greatest peril? People have different answers to that question, but which is the correct answer? What follows are possibilities of what imperils Mankind the most. #1 …

Whenever one grows up in an environment with limited interaction with people of other races and cultures, one becomes guilty of ethnocentrism without being aware of it. As anthropologist …

What makes one a hero? I learned the answer to that question when the traveling version of the Vietnam War Memorial – the Wall – was displayed in my …

A disturbing trend has been taking place among the apologists for the old Confederacy. The latter have been using straw-man arguments against relocating of statues that honor the Confederacy. …

Americans are routinely told that the Confederate flag represents Southern heritage. If that is true, then I want no part of Southern heritage. That is because the Confederate flag …

Once again, the fate of Confederate monuments is on the the front burner of public debate in America. From the DFW affiliate of CBS News: “The debate about Confederate …

One task that the legal guardians of children have is the task of teaching children the art of disagreeing without engaging in personal attacks. This particular art form is …

The current debate about gun control includes a debate about the fate of the AR-15. To ban or not to ban retail sales of the AR-15: That is the …

Snowflake college students are the subject of a lengthy article published by The New Yorker. In The Big Uneasy, author Nathan Heller introduces his readers to the snowflake students …