My son was furious when I picked him up from day camp, slamming the door when he got in the car. He had been downgraded from a "yellow" swimmer to a "red" swimmer. He hadn't forgotten how to swim. The YMCA had simply changed its policy. My son loves to swim. He likes donning goggles ...
As we approach the forthcoming college fall semester, much discussion has centered on the difficulties a lot of Gen Z students are having with reading and critical thinking. One Chronicle of Higher Education article that many of my colleagues at Ohio State University's Lima ...
Wars remake war. New weaponry, new tactics, new strategy time and again produce results no one predicted or thought possible. Revolutionary France's levee en masse and Napoleon's bold attacks prevailed over staid 18th-century siege warfare and subdued all Europe. The aggressive ...
Like parents, teachers can shape not just a child's experience in the world but also the very essence of who they are. Stumble into a class with a bad teacher and the encounter might stick with you forever. To wit: I'm a grown woman with kids of my own, and I still remember my ...
"Not one of our presidents ..." journalist Matt Taibbi writes, "can resist starting wars." When the Soviet Union fell, President Bill Clinton said, "The Cold War is over; we must secure the peace." A few years later, he and NATO launched airstrikes against Serbian forces. Clinton ...
One of the defining failures of modern American government has been the steady erosion of Congress's constitutional authority over war. The Constitution grants Congress - not the president - the power to declare war. Congress decides to go to war. The president wages it. Over the ...
