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  • Edina School Board Settles Lawsuit with Conservative Students, Denies Wrongdoing

    Edina School Board Settles Lawsuit with Conservative Students, Denies Wrongdoing0

    A school board in Minnesota settled a federal lawsuit filed last week that had accused the district of violating the First Amendment rights of conservative students. Edina High School, which has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the Minnesota’s best schools, came under scrutiny last year after it was revealed the school had implemented

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  • Edgar Guest: Remembering ‘The People’s Poet’

    Edgar Guest: Remembering ‘The People’s Poet’0

    Poetry is not my strong suit, I’m no good at writing verse. My prose may be no better, but at least I could do worse. Oh my gosh, I’m a poet and don’t know it! If it hadn’t been for a couple good English teachers in high school, I might have never read more than

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  • Eden, Utopia, and Original Sin

    Eden, Utopia, and Original Sin0

    Recently I spent several days visiting my sister and her husband in their home in Western North Carolina. Both are retired, love gardening and landscaping, and as a result, have spent long and arduous hours making a mini paradise of their property. Here are flower beds, plots for growing tomatoes, zucchini, and other vegetables—this year

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  • Ectogenesis Is Close to Growing Babies in Labs

    Ectogenesis Is Close to Growing Babies in Labs0

    Ectogenesis, or artificially gestating babies, is an idea which has a perennial appeal, for good reasons and bad. The film below is a brief snapshot of Dutch research into artificial wombs, or ectogenesis. The main scientist, gynecologist Dr. Guid Oei, was interviewed by the BBC. He estimates that gestating human babies outside the womb is about

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  • Economy Surges at Record Rate as GDP Grows 33 Percent

    Economy Surges at Record Rate as GDP Grows 33 Percent0

    The U.S. economy grew by a record 33.1 percent in the third quarter of the year as employers continue to restore jobs and the country continues to feel the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The Commerce Department figure released Wednesday reflects the rate of decline in U.S. gross domestic product during the third quarter, from

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  • Economist: A ‘Great Reset’ is Coming to America

    Economist: A ‘Great Reset’ is Coming to America0

    Americans have become afraid of change. That’s the seemingly counterintuitive observation of Tyler Cowen’s newly released book, The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Change. Cowen is an economics professor at George Mason University who runs perhaps the most popular economics blog in the world, Marginal Revolution. Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping

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