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  • The Pros and Cons of Kids With Smartphones

    The Pros and Cons of Kids With Smartphones0

    How many of you are thinking of getting your tween a cell phone for Christmas? Because we all know that in the eyes of a tween or teen, a shiny new cell phone under the Christmas tree is even better than Santa. And the pressure is on: everyone at school has a cell phone nowadays.

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  • The Prophetic Genius of Ivan Illich

    The Prophetic Genius of Ivan Illich3

    How did the non-conformists and radicals of the 1960s and 1970s, who were also heavily skeptical of the medical-industrial complex and who helped turn alternative medicine into a billion dollar industry, become some of the most rabid supporters of lockdowns and COVID vaccine mandates? My mother, a woman who has spat in the face of

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  • The Progressive Roots of Fascism

    The Progressive Roots of Fascism0

    Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini have become, for many of us today, mere Hollywood villains—generic personifications of evil or (in Mussolini’s case) buffoonish authoritarianism.  Yet their ideologies were rooted in specific philosophical ideas—ideas which had many respectable adherents in their day. One person who understands this is Jonah Goldberg, author of the 2007 book Liberal

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  • The Profession that Dare Not Speak Its Name

    The Profession that Dare Not Speak Its Name1

    Hello, my name is Emma and I’m a stay-at-home mother. Or…no…wait! I’m a work-at-home mother. Actually, it might be more accurate to say that I’m the chief executive officer of my home. Whenever I try to tell people what I do with my life, I get tangled in semantic knots. There is always someone around

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  • The Problem With the Push for More College Degrees

    The Problem With the Push for More College Degrees0

    In a 2009 speech, President Barack Obama proclaimed that by 2020, the United States will “once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.” As we near 2020, it is worth asking how close are we to reaching that lofty goal and what have been the results of focusing so intently on

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  • The Problem with the Moana Costume Isn’t Cultural Appropriation

    The Problem with the Moana Costume Isn’t Cultural Appropriation0

    In an utterly unsurprising development, social justice warriors are now not only dictating to American adults what they can wear on Halloween, but children as well. Social convention was once to abstain from culturally insensitive garb like “black face,” but thanks to politically correct scolds, the social expectation of what is acceptable and what is

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