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  • How Stoicism Can Help Americans Regain Our Entrepreneurial Edge

    How Stoicism Can Help Americans Regain Our Entrepreneurial Edge5

    For all its (enormous) downsides, there was one silver lining to the Covid-19 pandemic: Entrepreneurship shot way up. The combination of remote work—and the new opportunities for disruption caused by massive changes to the economy—led to a boom in the start-up world. But sustaining a new business takes more than some societal changes or the

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  • How statistics are twisted to obscure public understanding

    How statistics are twisted to obscure public understanding0

    Mark Twain attributed to Benjamin Disraeli the famous remark: ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’ In every industry, from education to healthcare to travel, the generation of quantitative data is considered important to maintain quality through competition. Yet statistics rarely show what they seem. If you look at recent airline

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  • How SpellCheck and AutoCorrect are Destroying Kids’ Grammar

    How SpellCheck and AutoCorrect are Destroying Kids’ Grammar0

    One thing school-aged parents can agree upon is their dissatisfaction with the lack of writing instruction their children receive in grade school. Writing rules, language arts, essay composition, sentence structure, punctuation, style—all of these things have come up in casual conversations with parents you bump into at the store, in the parking lot, and on

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  • How Socialism Would Abolish Holidays

    How Socialism Would Abolish Holidays0

    If you enjoyed a hearty Thanksgiving meal last week with your family, you have a personal incentive to oppose socialism. Extreme egalitarians would like to ban these kinds of family celebrations – by abolishing the family. The purveyors of woke ideology have long asserted that only collectivizing the family can bring true social equality. However,

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  • How Social Media Fuels the Transgender Social Contagion

    How Social Media Fuels the Transgender Social Contagion0

    Being a pre-teen or teen girl was hard enough 20 years ago. Now? Girls are inundated with online content drawing their attention and insecurities toward their bodies. Far from only being told they don’t have the right face shape or hair color, girls are now told their very female figure is something to reject. Online

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  • How Small States Lose When They Abandon the Electoral College

    How Small States Lose When They Abandon the Electoral College0

    Calls for the abolition of the Electoral College have persisted in the three years since President Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election without winning the popular vote. But abolishing the Electoral College in the normal way – via amending the Constitution – is a bit more arduous than proponents like. U.S. Supreme Court Justice

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