Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court Justice who died recently, labeled his brand of jurisprudence “originalism,” meaning he imagined he could go back hundreds of years and peer into the minds of our founding fathers as they drafted our Constitution.  (Click) For Scalia to perform as mi

One of my readers, unhappy with my last two blogs on political correctness (blogs 6/23/15 & 8/10/15), sent me an article from the Atlantic Monthly which opposed my view.  (“The Coddling of the American Mind,” by Greg Kukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, Atlantic Monthly, September 2

My blog of June 23, “Frail And Sensitive Little Bullies,” evoked a number of responses, particularly among Facebook readers.  At issue was the concern a female student shared with her instructor about Ovid’s Metamorphoses. She was a rape victim and feared reading the descriptio