Maia Szalavitz argues in a wonderful article in Time that we can and should activtely cultivate empathy in our children: Increasingly, neuroscientists, psychologists and educators believe that bullying and other kinds of violence can indeed be reduced by encouraging empathy at an early age. Over the past decade, research in empathy — the ability to [...]

I had no idea, but it seems that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a really nice guy.  That’s not the usual sort of description you get about a CEO, but evidently Schmidt is both a fairly good person and a very intellectual businessman: Schmidt doesn’t hide his grand vision. When he speaks, he comes off [...]

It seems almost fated that our the last post of the regular school year would be one on the past. But in a way, this is also on the future too. Ted Deutch, a Michigan alumn and former co-edit0r-in-chief of Consider was just elected to U.S. Congress in Florida’s 19th District. The current Consider staff [...]

I was meaning to get to this earlier today but Economix has a list of the top ten private, public, and liberal arts schools average full-time professor salaries and Michigan is fourth behind Berkeley (of course. Wah.) and before North Carolina (woot! Take that Tar-Heels!). But keep one thing in mind: the University may not [...]

A while back I posted a similar map comparing bars to grocery store. This one compares where pizza stores, gun stores, and strip clubs are most common. It’s a pretty unremarkable map EXCEPT in southern Nevada. Catch that? That’s right, there are more strip clubs than pizza. I would usually suppose that wherever there are [...]

Edmund Zagorin is a senior at the University of Michigan majoring in Philosophy and International Affairs & Public Policy.  He is currently a member of the Michigan Policy Debate team.  He is also an editor of the student publication Superplus and an active member of Detroit Urban Debate Education (DUDE), a non-profit organization that works [...]