Trends in Society

December 13th, 2023
By: Ron E. Hassner – wsj.com – December 5, 2023 But only 47% of the students who embrace the slogan were able to name the river and the sea. Some of the alternative answers were the Nile and the Euphrates, the Caribbean, the Dead Sea (which is a lake) and the Atlantic. Less than a quarter of these students knew...
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December 12th, 2023
When the internet was introduced to the general public in the early 1990s, it was met with a mix of emotions.
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December 12th, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday passed up a chance to consider overruling its own precedent allowing protective “bubble” zones around abortion clinic patients, turning away a challenge by a Catholic woman in New York to a now-repealed county law passed after the justices overturned abortion rights nationally in 2022.
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December 11th, 2023
As I was watching the presidents of three elite universities testify before Congress on Tuesday, I wondered whether I was watching the beginning of Wokeism’s death throes.
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December 8th, 2023
The war in Ukraine and Israel’s response to the October 7 terrorist attack signal a worldwide turn away from U.S. leadership.
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December 7th, 2023
I’ve spent years trying to understand the mental health crisis among teenage girls. But both sexes are suffering.
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December 7th, 2023
Gerrymandering Jews into an ‘oppressed’ class won’t save universities from a malevolent ideology.
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December 6th, 2023
The war, Vivek Ramaswamy acknowledges, could and likely will get worse. But we can already see the troops deployed and the battle lines drawn
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December 5th, 2023
Something eerie, something creepy, is happening in the world—and now in America as well. The dark mood is brought on by elite universities, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry…
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December 5th, 2023
By: John Ellis – wsj.com – December 4, 2023 America faces a formidable range of calamities: crime out of control, borders in chaos by design, children poorly educated while sexualized and politicized against parental opposition, unconstitutional censorship, a press that does government PR rather than oversight, our institutions and corporations debased in the name of “diversity, equity and inclusion”—and more....
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