The philosophy behind Common Core goes back to one of the greatest educational reformers of the twentieth-century, the pragmatic psychologist B.F. Skinner (1904-1990). Skinner took the factory mindset of American pragmatism and…
In 1912, the United States Congress began holding a series of hearings into workplace practices introduced by Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915). Taylor had revolutionized American factories, increasing productivity by staggering amounts. Through…
I’m not even going to try to move all the archives from my old blog to this new and better platform. Maybe if I get rich I can pay a friend to…
I have been accused by a man from Pakistan, commenting on one of my articles, of being “Islamophobic.’ The offending article was Part 1 in my series on the Islamisation of Britain.…
Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that if British jihadists want to return they should be forced to attend de-radicalisation sessions which seek to better educate terrorists about Islam. Here’s what I…
I just published an article at Christian Voice about Britain’s problem of home-grown terrorism. Building on my earlier series on the Islamisation of Britain, I have warned that British-born Muslims are flocking…
This article was originally published in my column at the Colson Center. It is republished here with permission. For a complete directory of all my Colson Center articles, click here. Could God…
One of my joys earlier this year was being able to interview Peter Leithart about Shakespeare for the July/August 2014 issue of Touchstone. You don’t have to be a subscriber to Touchstone…
This article was originally published in my column at the Colson Center. It is republished here with permission. For a complete directory of all my Colson Center articles, click here. Last week…
One of the themes I’ve been exploring in some of my Salvo articles is how our brains change based on interactions with our social environment. In my Salvo article ‘The Neuro Transformers’…
Having written about the decline in social attentiveness and empathy that seems to be encouraged by our digital preoccupations, I was fascinated to read an article today by Brett and Kate McKay…
One of the books I’m reading right now is Sherry Turkle’s 2012 book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. I wanted to read this book to…
