Tharoor says 'sorry' for his 'cattle class' remarks

The Deputy foreign minister of India said sorry for his cattle remark on austerity drive of UPA government."Reacting on the controversy over his 'cattle class' remarks, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Thursday night said he was 'sorry' for hurting any...

Social mobility: Ambition is everything

"Sometimes the obvious needs to be stated. Britain is an unequal society. The elite look after their own. Poverty traps people from one generation to another. Government action and huge expenditure have at best stopped social division worsening. Encouraging aspiration is...

School uses kids as props for stunt

how can the school authorities be so ignorant and stupid..they cannot put the children into dangerous situation like these...and IF the parents have agreed to let them do so....i wonder what they were thinking....there should be some action taken so that this does not...

UPDATE: Can 10th graders go for a whole week without electronics?

It had been two days since they used anything.                         Octavio Cruz didn’t know what to do with himself on the first day so he rearranged his entire room. Jamila Martinez was waking up in the middle of the night, bashing her head into...

Neuroscience and social deprivation

"THAT the children of the poor underachieve in later life, and thus remain poor themselves, is one of the enduring problems of society. Sociologists have studied and described it. Socialists have tried to abolish it by dictatorship and central planning. Liberals have...

Defining the U.S. middle class

"Most Americans in the United States define themselves as being part of the middle class, but there are differing opinions of what that means."What is your definition of middle class? I suppose mine is concerned with the following: in professional employment, university...

Love That Hate!

This article is a riveting and refreshing point of view that leaves us asking more questions then it answers."" By Paul Kengor We must teach our children to hate," Vladimir Lenin instructed his education commissars. The Bolshevik godfather declared that hatred was not only...