Collision on Campus: Tolerance vs. Free Speech

"From Missouri to Yale to Wesleyan to the University of California, public and private schools have become embroiled in controversies that have some ...

Shrek's Lord Farquaad Displays Selfishness

The animated movie Shrek gets so many things right about our lives. One such example is the pitiful little king of the land, Lord Farquaad. Farquaad is ...

Young Adults' Prayers Lack Repentance and Praise

Researcher Christian Smith's book, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers, concludes that many young American adults ...

Parents Create Narcissistic Children

The Washington Post writing about a study opines that parents are to blame for the growing narcissism in the world, rather than the influence of, say, ...

Our Instant Gratification Society Has a Cost

An article in The Boston Globe claims that our "demand for instant results is seeping into every corner of our lives." The need for instant gratification ...

Welcome to the Cuisine of Have-It-Your-Way

Customized dining has never been easier, according to a recent Washington Post article outlining the proliferation of tell-them-what-you-want food chains. ...

Everybody Expects to Be Entertained

Here's how the best-selling author Michael Crichton described our need to be constantly entertained:

Today, everybody expects to be entertained, and they ...

The Twilight of Entitlement

The Washington Post ran a very preachable article about “the collapse of ‘entitlement.’” Here’s Robert J. Samuelson definition ...

Entitlement Mindset Produces Ingratitude

The bigger our sense of entitlement, the smaller our sense of gratitude …. [Our entitlement mindset] has led to a proliferation of lawsuits: when ...

Historian Observes Our Inflated Expectations

Historian Daniel Boorstin suggests that Americans suffer from all-too-extravagant expectations. In his much-quoted book, The Image, Boorstin makes this ...