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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...