Found in John Merriman, Modern Europe: Volume One, From the Renaissance to the Age of Napoleon (1st edition, 1996): Literature flourishes in Italy and princes there are not ashamed to listen to, and themselves to know, […]

What if we decided that accurate information is an essential need in a democracy, just as effective police and fire services are essential in any society that values safety? The logic here is straightforward. Democracy […]

I have been impressed with Dan Willingham’s work separating the wheat from the chaff in the world of educational psychology ever since I found his earlier book, Why Don’t Students Like School (Jossey-Bass, 2010), in which […]

I saw a tweet yesterday warning that Russian bots, already at work on the 2018 elections, were ginning up fears that Democrats favor open borders. Most Democrats, of course, do not favor open borders, but […]