Meet ‘Social-Emotional Learning’: New Education Fad, Same As The Old Fads
Instead of improving classroom achievement and helping students to reach their highest potential, ‘SEL’ doubles down on failed educational fads of the past.
Is Concern For Rebuilding Notre Dame About Piety Or Aesthetics?
No tears fall for these parishes in Florida’s panhandle, devastated by hurricanes, that lack the supernal sheen of great architecture.
The Problem With Outrage Culture Isn’t The Outrage, It’s How It’s Wielded
Although these often superfluous, theatrical, and overindulgent displays have been the source of much ridicule, outrage and offence are not intrinsically bad intuitions.
Take This True Or False Quiz To See If Your Feelings Need A Reality Check
How should we view these powerful sensations, and what role should they play in our lives?
4 Tips To Help You Find Your Way Out Of The Dark Night Of Depression
Depression is not all-powerful and treatment is available, but to get help, you need to lean on the people around you and seek assistance from experienced professionals.
Sorry, Professor, Speech Is Not Violence, Even To Your Neurons
These data simply do not support Lisa Barrett’s implausible claim that speech directed at college students can cause them physiological harm.
NPR: We Don’t Need Safe Spaces Because People Can Control Their Emotions
The show ‘Invisibilia’ makes the case that we are more responsible for our emotions and responses than we typically care to believe.
Reaction To Steve Scalise’s Shooting Teaches Us To Fear Indifference More Than Hate
It’s likely that most Americans have little recollection of where they were or what they were doing when they learned about Steve Scalise and the others who had been wounded. Why?
It’s The Truth That Keeps You Going, Even When Motherhood Hurts
Why sacrifice comfort, success, and pleasure to raise children? Society says we should follow our feelings; C.S. Lewis says we should pursue virtue.
How To Reject The Temptation To Despair
Sadness as a temptation is not the one we usually hear about. But it’s real.
How Choice And Emotion Can Influence Sexual Orientation
The scientific evidence that biology or culture determine sexual orientation is weak. Here’s a third hypothesis.
Even Advertising Can Say Something Real
Peter Lawler is cynical about Don Draper’s transformation during the ‘Mad Men’ finale. But even advertising can say something real.
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