Ars moriendi — “the art of dying” — was established in 1415 when a Dominican friar published a book instructing its readers how to achieve “the good death.” This amounted to spending one’s...
Last week, Salt Lake was marked as yet another city distinctly and publicly affected by the ongoing hurricane of media-fueled police harassment and violence. Police say Abdi Mohamed, the victim of the...
In the wake of Pokémon’s 20th anniversary, many are wondering what made the series so successful. Many of us spent our youth capturing, battling and trading Pokémon. We’ve been around since the early...
From the influence of Arne Duncan to that of Mark Zuckerberg, the future of the United States' education system seems to be at the cusp of something huge. Duncan, the U.S. Secretary of Education who resigned...
Our beliefs and values shape the way we look at the world and the way we treat it. Unfortunately, our paradigm of normal has exempted accountability for those who hold positions of power. When we give...
What I enjoyed most about the TV show “Mad Men” was that the series adhered fairly reliably to the period in which it was set (the ‘60s). Back then, it was more or less natural for men to leave their...
James Fallows’ piece in the March issue of The Atlantic covered his travels to up-and-coming cities in the United States, where he measured them against eleven characteristics that show promise for success....
For any young adult, it is hard to recall a time before YouTube. The video sharing site has always been the primary place to access music videos, movie trailers, educational programs and, more recently,...
When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly, Senate Republicans went into panic mode and a political power struggle took precedent over the healthy functioning of our democratic system....
