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  • Very Cool! New York Public Library Releases 180,000 Historical Images into the Public Domain

    Very Cool! New York Public Library Releases 180,000 Historical Images into the Public Domain0

    NPR reports that the New York Public Library has released 180,000 public domain items as high resolution downloads available for free. This means that the public now has unprecedented access to historical images in high quality: “The documents include literary manuscripts, Farm Security Administration photographs, sheet music, papers from Founding Fathers, WPA-era art by African-American

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  • Verbicide: The Language of Politics and the Politics of Language

    Verbicide: The Language of Politics and the Politics of Language2

    On his blog A Pilgrim in Narnia, Brenton Dickieson tells us that C.S. Lewis in his Studies in Words defined “verbicide” as the “murder of words.” Dickieson adds that “Lewis has some similar concerns as George Orwell in his ‘Politics and the English Language.’ Words can be politicized or bent into the service of those

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  • Venezuela’s President Tackles Economic Crisis by Deleting 3 Zeros From its Currency

    Venezuela’s President Tackles Economic Crisis by Deleting 3 Zeros From its Currency0

    It seems that Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro has finally found the way to bring the country out of the unprecedented economic crisis Venezuela is immersed in since 2012. The ineffable leader of the Bolivarian Revolution has recently announced the launching of a new currency, the so-called Sovereign Bolivar, which will replace the bolivar as the

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  • Venezuela’s Nightmare: 5 Reasons It’s Likely to Get Worse

    Venezuela’s Nightmare: 5 Reasons It’s Likely to Get Worse0

    “It’s time for a coup in Venezuela.” That statement appeared in Foreign Policy magazine on June 5, two weeks after Nicolás Maduro was re-elected as Venezuela’s president on May 20 in an election widely considered to be rigged. José R. Cárdenas, the former Bush administration official who wrote it, argued that “the United States and

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  • Venezuela’s Situation Requires a Great Deal of Pragmatism

    Venezuela’s Situation Requires a Great Deal of Pragmatism0

    In a bold move last week, the National Assembly of Venezuela, which was deprived of its constitutional powers by the government-controlled Supreme Court in March 2017, appointed National Assembly’s leader Juan Guaidó as interim President of Venezuela. This triggered an immediate reaction on the streets where millions of Venezuelans gathered to demand the resignation of

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  • Venezuela’s Disaster is Man-Made

    Venezuela’s Disaster is Man-Made0

    Journalists are now reporting regularly on the crisis in Venezuela, with shortages of everything from toilet paper to food and now daily street protests. What the news reports too often miss is, Why? Why is a formerly middle-class, oil-rich country now so desperately poor? The Weekly Standard notes a New York Times article, “How Venezuela

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