The best way to gain job security is not being the most knowledgeable person in the room. It's being the most reliable person in the room. Information is abundant. Dependability, helpfulness, and responsiveness are relatively scarce. We count on people who consistently deliver.

In my experience, 95% of professors find the growth in non-teaching staff unproductive and inimical to the central mission of their universities. But it’s too late for faculty to reverse the trend. The vested interests within administrations have acquired too much power.

Rosa Parks, who refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, Montgomery, Alabama, on this day in 1955:

At this time of bloodstained conflict and violence, Catholics and Orthodox are called to be peacemakers. This means taking action, making choices, and adopting gestures that build #Peace, while also acknowledging that peace is not merely the fruit of human effort, but is a gift

Video games improve mental health.

2 million views. Zero tax dollars spent. A Christian charity does this. And it is a good program.

"We’re often told that aggression is something we learn. But the evidence suggests the opposite: that kids have to learn not to be aggressive." [Link below.]

As we move through the holidays, Ronald Reagan calls us back to the values that unite us.

Adjusted for inflation, the median household income for Americans in 2024 was *the highest it’s ever been*

1997: the President of the United States was born in 1946. 2007: the President of the United States was born in 1946. 2017: the President of the United States was born in 1946. 2027: the President of the United States was born in 1946.

Catholics and Orthodox Christians must cooperate to promote the responsible use of new technologies, ensuring they are placed at the service of integral human development and made universally accessible, so that their benefits are not reserved to a small number of people or the

People who don't think phones/social media are having a deleterious effect on developing brains -- what's the alternative explanation for this? Did every country put lead in the water at the same time?

Let’s have the AUDACITY to BELIEVE. And to do something bold, strategic, and love-centered with what we believe. Thank you, Daddy. #BeLove #Believe #Become #MLK

70 years ago, Rosa Parks sat firmly in truth and sparked a movement. And in Coretta Scott King’s words, “Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.” Sisters continue to be that soul—advancing justice through courageous, nonviolent

ON THIS DAY in 1955, Rosa Parks demonstrated conviction and courage by refusing to forfeit her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa and Muhammad share strong principles and have both contributed their efforts toward racial equality. (📷: Ira Rosenberg)

Data: eastern Europe before and after communist socialism.

It's the phones

Here's yet another study showing that kids who get smartphones earlier have worse mental health as teens. So what's the right age for a first smartphone? I'd say its whatever age you want them to cut back on sleeping, reading, exercise, and socializing. I advise not doing that

THURSDAY: Join Dr. Daniel Mark at 4:30pm on Thursday, December 4, in Robertson Hall Bowl 016, for the Annual Herbert W. Vaughan Lecture on America’s Founding Principles, titled, "The Nature of Law: Authority, Obligation, and the Common Good." More information here:

"I am not arguing, as is commonly suggested, that wokeness was on the right track but went too far. Rather, by unwittingly accepting deeply regressive philosophical assumptions, it went in the wrong direction entirely." Really worth reckoning with Susan Neiman's latest in