June 7, 2024

Addiction and the End of Personal Responsibility

There is no more critical tenet of conservatism than the assumption of  individual responsibility.  As Dennis Prager wrote in a summative essay thirty years ago for The Heritage Foundation,  “just as I am rewarded ...

August 18, 2023

Student debating, once a bastion of logic, has been invaded from the left

During my 48 years teaching at Towson University, all my classes involved informal or formal debating: the quintessential activity of academic classes outside and sometimes including the sciences and arts. Sadly, like everything else in academia, deb...