Car Talk (for Kids)
With the start of the school year, Meghan Cox Gurdon finds herself back on the road carpooling, listening in on a car full of children. With the start of the school year, Meghan Cox Gurdon finds herself back on the road carpooling, listening in on a car full of children. Well, here we all …Leave History to the Old Guys
The publishing world is always looking for “bright young things” in literature, philosophy and history. But there is often no substitute for a lifetime of scholarship. I have been reading two books published at the turn of the century by men who lived through most of it. One by Jacques Barzun …Just Say No
David Eddie shares a two-letter solution with a reader worried that he cannot stop his friends from taking advantage of him. Writing in the Globe and Mail , David Eddie fields a question from a reader worried that he cannot stop his friends from taking advantage of him. The reader writes: …Cuccinelli Takes Climate Change to the Courts
Last week, a judge halted VA attorney general Ken Cuccinelli's probe into a climate scientist's funding. But will Cuccinelli continue trying to discredit climate science? “Protective cognition” is a social science term for the tendency of individuals to dismiss evidence of risks that contradicts …Why You Shouldn't Fear Google & Verizon's Net Neutrality Deal
For all of the angst, the Google-Verizon net neutrality framework announced last week would keep the internet operating pretty much the same way it does today. "Breaking up is hard to do. If he didn’t know it before, Google CEO Eric Schmidt has realized it now. After pushing the "net neutrality" …