My wife is an adolescent medicine doctor, meaning she is a pediatrician that specializes in teenagers. A key idea she has always emphasized is that the adolescent brain is not fully developed—particularly when it comes to executive function. This means…
Knowledge has little value if it is not disseminated. After all, great ideas exist because they are widely known and appreciated, not held privately. Yet, knowledge and personal preference are often subversively mixed—because those who have understanding often inject partiality…
Over and over again, one of my favorite authors, Reinhold Niebuhr, has written that humans are incapable of perfect love. Yet, in spite of this fact, we perpetually try to fashion a perfect world from that which is inherently imperfect.…
The truth hurts, and when the truth forces you to challenge your deeply-held assumptions about reality, that’s when it hurts the most. With the facts, we can take the painful step and pivot, cognizant that we will now proceed in…
Here is one reason why the unfortunate case of Sandra Bland is so terrifying: Citizens are asked to obey and constrain themselves in recognition of the law. Yet, the law is the very thing that certain police officers have transgressed…
What is racism? The New Oxford American Dictionary defines racism as “the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race…
Many advocates of individual liberty and freedom are celebrating and championing the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which grants gay couples the same right as heterosexuals to get married and have that union recognized by the government.…
The Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2015 is abominable for one distinct reason: In the name of “religious freedom,” it encourages secular bondage. In 1964, Congress passed the federal Civil Rights Act. This legislation prohibits discrimination in housing and…
Speech cannot always be free because context determines meaning. Allow me to explain. In a recent post, titled “True Freedom,” I wrote the following: “Indeed, true freedom is not free, nor is it always convenient. The root of the word…
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