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  • Infernal Inflation: What Goethe’s Devil Can Teach Us About Economics

    Infernal Inflation: What Goethe’s Devil Can Teach Us About Economics0

    Disguised in the form of a fool, the devil visits a young emperor. The unfortunate ruler bemoans his nation’s ragged economy to the archdemon. However, the devil develops a solution: flood the country with paper money. The emperor praises the wise fool, and soon puts the plan into action. This early scene of the fascinating

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  • Infectious Disease Expert Calls for End to Lockdowns

    Infectious Disease Expert Calls for End to Lockdowns0

    In 2010, The Atlantic said that Dr. John Ioannidis “may be one of the most influential scientists alive.”  The article, written by David H. Freedman, made it clear the Greek-American physician-scientist’s rising star stemmed in part from the fearlessness he demonstrated in challenging bad science in the medical research field.  “[Ioannidis is] what’s known as

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  • Indoctrination in American Schools: How bad is it?

    Indoctrination in American Schools: How bad is it?0

    (The above image is that of a jacket worn by a teacher in a West Virginia public school.) The father of America’s public education system, Horace Mann, famously quipped: “Men are cast-iron, but children are wax.“ Mann knew that education was never a “value-neutral” proposition. It has always been and always will be a process

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  • Indoctrination Has Always Been the Goal of Progressive Education

    Indoctrination Has Always Been the Goal of Progressive Education0

    In recent years, many Americans have adopted the idea that public education is neutral ground. Such a mentality has undoubtedly sprung from the fact that the public school is the agent of the government, an entity which strives to keep itself clear from sectarian, political, or other ideological viewpoints. But in recent years, the falsity

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  • Individualistic Nations Provide the Most Charity for Strangers, Survey Shows

    Individualistic Nations Provide the Most Charity for Strangers, Survey Shows0

    Christian life relies on faith, not on sight. But it is a serendipity when social science bears out its teachings about spiritual and religious freedom – and it is particularly delicious when those findings are featured on NPR. “The world’s wealthiest and most individualistic countries also happen to be some of the most altruistic,” wrote Georgetown University’s

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  • Individual Rights and Their Role in the Revolution

    Individual Rights and Their Role in the Revolution0

    America’s Revolutionary Mind, by C. Bradley Thompson (Encounter Books; 584 pp., $32.99).   Thompson’s examination of colonial America’s natural rights political culture and the effects of the Declaration’s oft-quoted passage about unalienable rights is not likely to please members of the traditional right, and as such I consider it required reading. Thompson presents copious evidence

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