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  • Grice’s Maxims: Rules for Effective Conversation

    Grice’s Maxims: Rules for Effective Conversation1

    For most of us, conversation is an intuitive, passive practice. We’re used to the contours of natural speech and writing, and we often make contributions to everyday interactions almost without thinking. Our habits of communication can come as natural as breathing. But when communication breaks down, there’s always the question of where things went wrong.

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  • Greta Thunberg’s Population Growth Problem

    Greta Thunberg’s Population Growth Problem0

    Earlier this week, famed climate activist Greta Thunberg took to Instagram, announcing her belief that she was recovering from COVID-19. Her illness, Thunberg noted, was light, and didn’t seem much worse than the common cold. Thunberg attributed her allegedly light COVID case to her youth. Unlike certain spring break partiers, Thunberg recognized the importance of

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  • Gregory Watson: The C Student Who Amended the Constitution

    Gregory Watson: The C Student Who Amended the Constitution0

    How likely is it that a C college student would set off events that would amend the U.S. Constitution?  After all, amending the Constitution of the United States is notoriously difficult. There have been just 27 amendments in the 241-year history of the United States, and only 15 amendments have been passed since 1803. The

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  • Gregory Alan Isakov: A Master of Modern Folk Music

    Gregory Alan Isakov: A Master of Modern Folk Music5

    Maybe it’s the fact that Gregory Alan Isakov also works as a farmer, supplying some hundred CSAs and a few restaurants in Boulder, that makes his music so earthy, raw, and real. Isakov’s lyrics and sound–like his plants–are deeply rooted in the landscape, specifically the Western U.S. South-African born but residing in the U.S. since

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  • Greenland and the Dangers of Security over Liberty

    Greenland and the Dangers of Security over Liberty1

    Though talk of America taking over Greenland has died down recently, the bold foreign policy strategy has taken many of all political persuasions by surprise. It should. Western political thought has long resolved that freedom and national self-determination are political goods that far outweigh security, regardless of the potential for danger. Conservative political commentators often

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  • Green Energy Has a Dirty Secret

    Green Energy Has a Dirty Secret2

    As with most things espoused in the name of social progress, the left’s aggressive push for EV technology conveniently forgets the lives of those affected by it the most. “On my watch, the great American road trip is going to be fully electrified…you can get up to $7,500 on a new electric vehicle,” Biden exclaimed during a

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