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Twenty years ago, I was driving my son to middle school, and he hilariously verbalized his complete and utter disdain for history class. Why I asked? What is it about history that perturbs your 8th grade brain so? His answer was, and I quote, “Because the same stupid things keep
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One of the current topics in education is about the role schools play in social emotional learning (SEL). Conversations around SEL often include “Don’t tell my children what to think.” There is also conversation about bias in news reporting. I often click on the four major news station websites
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We've all heard the uproar following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The justices are "so extreme," taking away women's rights, putting "the health and life of women in this country now at risk." Activists and politicians
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As a psychology student, I find myself thinking often about our thoughts, emotions, behavior, and how the three interact with and affect one other. I’m someone who reads scholarly journal articles for fun and often personifies my brain in casual conversations, saying, “My brain did this,” or “My brain
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With most public policy challenges, we tend toward simple explanations and blamecasting. Such it is with inflation. I am not a fan of President Biden, but I do not think rising prices are all his fault. However, I do hold him and his administration responsible for their failure to assess
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Ah, it’s that time again… the time of the year in which one of the Intramuralist’s prioritized truths is made manifest. But before we share, allow me to acknowledge a few of those major and minor truths. First, a few, five majors… * We believe in conversation. * We believe
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I’m starting to believe people enjoy using the word “great” succeeded by a major, significant noun to make the phenomena sound really big… ie. the “Great Depression,” the “The Great British Baking Show,” or the Covid-prompted “great resignation.” Today’s discussed “great” is the “great realignment,” identified recently
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Let me start by acknowledging I’m really not qualified to write this. It’s not because I’m not a boy, as let’s be honest, no one gender, ethnicity, etc. can speak for all others of the same demographic — a point we oft ignore. I also am not
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For the last five years a wise mentor has repeatedly asked me about the above, bold question. Not only has he asked me the question, he’s also stayed put for the answer. He didn’t run when he received feedback that wasn’t fun. He didn’t deny when
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Allow me to confess something I’ve said sincerely and humbly in private circles. In order for our country to really be the land of the free and the home of the brave and a place we can each be proud to call “the beautiful,” we need wise leadership. My
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Thank you, Charlie Puth, for your 2016 Nine Track Mind hit… We don't talk anymore We don't talk anymore We don't talk anymore Like we used to do We don't love anymore What was all of it for? Oh, we don'
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The Intramuralist wrote about respected economist David French’s eye-opening book, “Divided We Fall,” addressing potential secession... two years ago. Note what the author so poignantly shares now, as written recently in The Dispatch: “… I’m growing increasingly wary of the binary analysis of American life. The more I