Society

Wichita State ends its philosophy major: what the Regents’ test counts

A two-year Regents process ended in a closure. Wilhelm von Humboldt’s idea of the university shows what a head count cannot measure.

What is the Supreme Court being asked in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy?

Two Catholic preschools want into Colorado's state-funded programme without accepting its nondiscrimination rules. The Court heard argument on 3 November 2026 and has not decided. What it must answer is narrower than the debate around it, and Locke explains only part of it.

Why are US measles cases at their highest since 1991?

The United States has logged 5,182 measles cases this year, more than double 2025. The number tells us less about one virus than about a community rate that no single family sets, and the ethics fight over exemptions turns on that point.

Does Mexico's school phone rule work? What Mill and the evidence say

Since 3 November 2026, personal phones are kept out of Mexican basic-education schools for the whole school day unless a teacher has planned their use. The rule sets no specific sanctions, and the evidence that such rules help is thin.

Drug deaths fell in 2025. The regional gap is the fact to explain

England and Wales recorded 5,519 drug-poisoning deaths in 2025, a small fall, with a North East rate more than double London's. We weigh Durkheim's idea that rates are social facts against the supply explanation.

Titus Burckhardt & The Death of Symbolism

How the Renaissance shattered our cosmic grammar, and why forging a "New Symbolism" is our only way out of the modern wasteland.