Leonidas Zelmanovitz reflects in Law & Liberty on the origins of the political doctrine of liberalism – that being a reaction against absolutist regimes. Based on this understanding, Zelmanovitz argues that giving equal opportunities to students should be done long before the admission process – and that applicants should be judged on merit alone.

Bad Mom? Bad Wife?
The Massachusetts trial of Lindsay Clancy for killing her three young children (recently declared a mistrial) became a litmus test for couples – with some publicly breaking off engagements due to disagreements over her culpability. Writing in The American Mind, Evie Solheim ponders the malign influence of social media on the marriage decision for younger generations. “When men and women treat existence as a zero-sum game, everyone loses,” she writes, pleading for greater understanding between the sexes. For more on marriage, see this C2C article.


