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  • The Canary in the Coal Mine of Culture

    The Canary in the Coal Mine of Culture3

    This past month has made me aware that the anti-Zionism and the anti-Semitic bigotry that have infected our news media and college campuses have trickled down into my own community. In one conversation, for instance, a good friend and fellow Catholic almost 50 years younger than I, stunned me with revelations about some of her

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  • The Bystander Effect: Myth or Fact?

    The Bystander Effect: Myth or Fact?0

    In the first part of Seinfeld’s finale, Jerry and his friends Elaine, George, and Kramer witness a carjacking. Instead of intervening to protect the victim, they stand by laughing and filming the incident. They don’t even contact the police. When a cop finally does show up, however, the group finds themselves under arrest for violating

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  • The Bureaucracy Is Now More Powerful Than Congress

    The Bureaucracy Is Now More Powerful Than Congress0

    Who creates federal laws? Civics books say it is Congress, but the real answer today may be the executive branch. Earlier this year, James Gattuso and Diane Katz reported that just the 229 major regulations issued since 2009 added over $100 billion in annual costs (according to the regulatory agencies), $22 billion coming in 2015. With estimates of the

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  • The Builders Inspire

    The Builders Inspire0

    • October 7, 2015

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is one of America’s great poets. As the Main Historical Society states, “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a commanding figure in the cultural life of nineteenth-century America. Born in Portland, Maine, in 1807, he became a national literary figure by the 1850s, and a world- famous personality by the time of his death

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  • The Broken-Window Fallacy Is Alive and Well, Hurricane Harvey Proves

    The Broken-Window Fallacy Is Alive and Well, Hurricane Harvey Proves0

    As Hurricane Harvey, now tropical storm Harvey, makes its way across the southern US, estimates have already come in as to the cost of the storm. According to AccuWeather, Harvey is expected to cost upwards of $190 billion in damages, one percent of the national GDP. This makes Harvey the costliest storm ever to hit the United

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  • The Brilliant Reason This School Decided to ‘Cancel’ Christmas

    The Brilliant Reason This School Decided to ‘Cancel’ Christmas0

    It seems there’s always some Grinch that wants to ruin Christmas every year. This year the Grinch award seemed ready to go to a British school in Yorkshire whose teachers told students that Christmas celebrations would be banned from its halls. According to The Guardian, that decree meant “‘no cards, no parties, no gifts and

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