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  • How Equality Destroyed the Carnegie Family

    How Equality Destroyed the Carnegie Family0

    Oh, how Andrew Carnegie adored creative destruction! How much he hated the past! His 1886 book, Triumphant Democracy,[1] a breathless paean to “the Republic,” feels like a prayer, spoken as much in numbers as in words. Among the words of his prayer, none charms like Equality—none possesses a more explanatory power or expresses such warm devotion. Even

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  • How Emotions Hijack Our Reason

    How Emotions Hijack Our Reason0

    Most people have heard of the fight or flight response. We see a grizzly in the woods and our instinct is to run screaming. Makes total sense (though it will get you killed, so don’t do it). What many people don’t realize is that we often have this same response to intense emotional situations. Feelings

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  • How Emotionalism is Slowly Replacing Rationalism

    How Emotionalism is Slowly Replacing Rationalism1

    My hometown has recently been hit with a barrage of ads for the local high-end theatre’s production of Sense and Sensibility. Like all of Jane Austen’s works, the novel manages to marry everyone off, but only after bringing the characters through the harrowing ups and downs of uncertain romantic relationships. As I was reflecting on

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  • How Early America Overcame Unrest and Cultural Diversity

    How Early America Overcame Unrest and Cultural Diversity0

    America’s last several years have been fraught with dissension. Tempers have flared and arguments have been fought in the months since Donald Trump was elected president, causing many to plead for civility and rationality in interactions. But now the gloves seem to be coming off. Several venues seem to be suggesting that civility is not

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  • How Dumbed Down Education is Creating a National Security Crisis

    How Dumbed Down Education is Creating a National Security Crisis0

    In Wind Sprints: Shorter Essays, Joseph Epstein, one of America’s great essayists, includes a piece “How I Learned to Love the Draft” in which he offered his reasons for the restoration of compulsory military service. After reading Epstein’s reasons for bringing back the draft—the exposure of young people to contemporaries from all backgrounds, a greater

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  • How Dumb Laws Get Innocent People in Trouble

    How Dumb Laws Get Innocent People in Trouble1

    There are a lot of weird laws these days. In fact, many of them are so dumb that it seems unlikely they would ever be enforced. But there are other weird laws that are enforced with a vengeance – even on those who are doing their best to be law-abiding citizens. An example of the

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