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  • The Dictatorship of the Young

    The Dictatorship of the Young0

    The end of every semester confronts the college instructor with an indignity: reading student “evaluations” of his performance. While the principle of student feedback is sound in theory, the execution exposes the embarrassing frivolity of American culture. Highlights from my literature courses include, and I quote verbatim: “There was too much reading.” “He should not

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  • The Despair of Stephen Hawking’s Inconsistencies

    The Despair of Stephen Hawking’s Inconsistencies0

    Stephen Hawking’s own personal brief history of time is up. But he left as he lived, feisty, modern and… depressing. And without finding the Grand Unified theory he was famous for being about to discover. Hawking was once equivocal about the meaning of life or lack thereof. In his popular 1988 book A Brief History of

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  • The Designated Hitter Is Another Blow to American Culture

    The Designated Hitter Is Another Blow to American Culture0

    Last week Major League Baseball announced its upcoming return, but they’ve implemented a few new rules, including forcing the designated hitter rule upon the National League, by which pitchers are denied an opportunity to hit in favor of a batter who does not play a position on the field. This implementation is another brutalist blow

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  • The Demonization of Dissent

    The Demonization of Dissent2

    Last week the New York Times ran an article in which it described the apparent radicalization of a group of parents from mainstream political persuasions to a single-issue anti-vaccine fringe. It describes how these parents seemingly came together on social media out of a concern about the damage inflicted by lengthy school closures on their children,

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  • The demographics of German migration

    The demographics of German migration0

    In the continuing aftermath of the sex attacks in German (and other European cities) on New Year’s Eve, the writings of Valerie Hudson, a professor at Texas A & M University are receiving quite a lot of attention. Hudson studies the effects of sex ratios on the stability of nations and she has written an

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  • The Demographic Winter Is Here

    The Demographic Winter Is Here0

    The demographic winter is here. The last decades have witnessed an increase in the share of the population aged 60 and older, which has moved from around 12.5 percent in 1950 to almost 22 percent in 2017. In 2040, this number is expected to reach 28 percent of the U.S. population. In other words, in

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