Environmental Control

The Trouble with Homeschooling

Moral failure confession time: while I was a graduate student working on my doctorate, on a nearly daily basis, I committed an act that most everyone would regard as “bad.”  I worked at an organization which operated a coffee pot in the lounge for its employees.  The idea was that anyone who used the coffee […]

Why You Should Argue Religion and Politics Online

In the diversity of thought that makes up the landscape of American culture, one convention has held perhaps more sway than any other: “Never, under any circumstance, bring up politics or religion at a dinner party.”  We all take this maxim seriously, but inevitably, at some point in our lives, we break this rule, and […]