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  • With Bernie, Trump May Regret What He Started

    With Bernie, Trump May Regret What He Started0

    An ancient Hebrew rabbinical text, sometimes called The Apocalypse of Abraham, tells the story of Abraham’s father, Terah, who manufactured statuette idols, considered gods by the local population. A young Abraham noticed that the head of one of these idols had fallen off during transport. He had a revelation: these were false gods made by humans;

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  • Witches: The New Woke Heroines

    Witches: The New Woke Heroines0

    It’s not exactly news that witchcraft attracts some feminists who see in it (in part) a spiritual expression of rebellion against patriarchy — including, obviously, Biblical religion. What is interesting, though, is how this particular cultural moment is feeding its growth. You could laugh at the “self-care” rituals witches aggrieved over Brett Kavanaugh engage in, but I

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  • Wise Parenting Uses Natural Consequences

    Wise Parenting Uses Natural Consequences0

    The great slogan of classical liberalism is “Life, Liberty, Property.” Essentially this means, don’t murder, enslave, or steal. And this in turn is essentially what we teach children when we say no hitting, bullying, or grabbing. Yet, when kids are introduced to the concept of government, suddenly murder/hitting (war, police brutality), slavery/bullying (conscription, regulation, prohibition,

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  • Wise (and Timeless) Advice from Rudyard Kipling

    Wise (and Timeless) Advice from Rudyard Kipling0

    In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, two towns 100 miles apart boast different names but nonetheless were named for the same person—though he never set foot in either one. The towns are Kipling and Rudyard, and the honored individual was Rudyard Kipling. A re-reading of a poem he first published 106 years ago is a good way to end

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  • Wisdom of the East: Saving Europe from Cultural Invasion

    Wisdom of the East: Saving Europe from Cultural Invasion0

    Editor’s Note: The following is an abridged version of Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán’s State of the Nation Address, delivered on February 29, 2016. It is published in translation here by gracious permission of the Hungarian Embassy in Madrid, Spain. Ladies and Gentlemen, The second and third decades of the twenty-first century will be the

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  • Wisdom from the Supremely Quotable G.K. Chesterton

    Wisdom from the Supremely Quotable G.K. Chesterton0

    1. “Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”   2. “To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”   3. “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”   4. “I object

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