Category: personal responsibility

Maybe You Should Take it Personally

September 19, 2021
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Commentary People often say you shouldn’t take things personally, but that doesn’t really help you. It mostly helps the person who’s saying it. It helps a friend to stay on your good side by agreeing that your boss or your spouse is the problem. It helps a parent bond with their child by agreeing that…

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Nothing Is Your Fault, Ever

July 11, 2021
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“It’s not their fault” is now the automatic response to all kinds of problems. If you don’t agree with this response, you’re condemned as “uncaring” or worse. But is it really caring to cram every problem into the “not-your-fault” mold? Does it really help students to hear that their academic setbacks are “not their fault”?…

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I’m With Israel and Against Critical Race Theory

May 19, 2021
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Commentary In 1867, American writer Mark Twain visited the Holy Land. He recorded his impressions in a book titled “The Innocents Abroad.” Twain was appalled when seeing the abandoned and desolate land that was the home of the Bible. “The further we went, the hotter the sun got and the more rocky and bare, repulsive…

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Police Reform and Personal Responsibility

April 28, 2021
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Commentary It is indeed rare, if not unprecedented, to see a highly diverse group of organizations such as the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom, the liberal American Civil Liberties Union, the libertarian Cato Institute, and the Reason Foundation on the same page as the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund on the same issue. But it…

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