Steven Pinker posted the >link< on Twitter – here is the text: ____________________________ Traditional news outlets might have you believing otherwise, but the developed world is getting safer The world is getting safer according to the World Bank’s latest homicide figures and crime survey data from England and Wales crunched by the UK’s Office for National StatisticsContinue reading “Positive News: Violent Crime, Mental Health”
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Walter Russell Mead
My high school experience was probably better than most, but I was dissatisfied nevertheless. I am not sure how my parents learned about it, but when I was a sophomore they took me to Simon’s Rock to be interviewed for acceptance. I recall that during the interview I was asked about my relationship with myContinue reading “Walter Russell Mead”
Robert Ruark
We come to know characters in books far better than we can people in our own lives because characters are immutable, crystalline in their structured captivity. I stole that thought from Milan Kundera – there is likely something similar in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. My mother sent me a book my father had wantedContinue reading “Robert Ruark”
Protective Arts 