If you grew up in an environment where deep conversations were rare, curiosity wasn’t encouraged, or questioning things got you in trouble, you might have missed out on key intellectual skills. Maybe ...

Last week, Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry announced that he does not believe greenhouse gas emissions are the primary cause of global warming, contradicting the views of the vast majority ...

“Dude, we need to get drunk this weekend,” I overheard one individual, undoubtedly known as Chad, remark to his acquaintance, whom I suspected to be Brad. Immediately the brilliance of the two parties ...

Recently, visiting the rural village where I grew up on the Baltic Sea coast of Sweden, I was intrigued by how the pattern of my high school friends' conversations had changed. Over the decade and a ...

When people think of disabilities, they usually picture something physical: a cane, a prosthetic, or a ramp outside a school. Intellectual disabilities, however, lack that kind of visibility. As a ...

In these pages I recently wrote about the importance of Kentucky’s recently adopted House Bill 4, which prohibits various forms of discrimination and indoctrination in the state’s public universities.