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  • How We Discovered Three Poisonous Books in our University Library

    How We Discovered Three Poisonous Books in our University Library0

    Some may remember the deadly book of Aristotle that plays a vital part in the plot of Umberto Eco’s 1980 novel The Name of the Rose. Poisoned by a mad Benedictine monk, the book wreaks havoc in a 14th-century Italian monastery, killing all readers who happen to lick their fingers when turning the toxic pages.

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  • How We Colored Our Public Squares Red

    How We Colored Our Public Squares Red0

    Reports tell us that church attendance among Americans is falling. I am acquainted with secular professors who apparently have learned nothing from the experiences of atheistic social experiments in the last century. Social experiments, I say, and not societies, because such monstrosities as Soviet Russia and Red China were never social enough to raise the human

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  • How We Can Do Good By Doing Well

    How We Can Do Good By Doing Well0

    Among economists’ insights over the last almost 250 years, one of the keenest is that one can do good while doing well. The idea traces to Adam Smith. It means capitalists’/entrepreneurs’ pursuit of profit can have favorable consequences for the community at large – and not just for capitalists and entrepreneurs. It applies equally to landowners and

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  • How Venezuelans Can Recover from the Sickness of Socialism

    How Venezuelans Can Recover from the Sickness of Socialism0

    And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works – French economist and statesman Frédéric Bastiat, 1850. Venezuela’s socialist

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  • How Tyrants Rise: Plato’s Eerie 2,500 Year-Old Warning

    How Tyrants Rise: Plato’s Eerie 2,500 Year-Old Warning0

    How can the wealthiest people make democracies worse? Plato investigates the question in Book VIII of the Republic. Socrates suggests there that, in pursuit of more and more wealth, oligarchic citizens within the democracy will exploit the lower economic classes, even to the point of undermining their own oligarchic economic interests. In other words, the oligarchs’

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  • How Twaddle Leads to Smut

    How Twaddle Leads to Smut1

    When I was about seven years old, I begged my parents to let me watch “Hannah Montana,” a favorite among some of my friends. My parents held their firmly negative stance despite my pleas. At a friend’s birthday party, though, the TV was turned on as background noise, and “Hannah Montana” happened to be on

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