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  • The 2nd Amendment Empowers Women More than Lapel Pins

    The 2nd Amendment Empowers Women More than Lapel Pins0

    The 90th annual Oscars were held last week, and as usual, the ceremony served as the perfect opportunity for Hollywood’s most elite to get together and stroke fragile egos. Given the recent explosion of sexual assault allegations as a result of the #MeToo movement, it was no surprise that much of this year’s Oscars virtue

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  • The 27-Year-Old Infant

    The 27-Year-Old Infant0

    I’ve been watching The Mandalorian lately. It’s not my favorite Western and I am not a Star Wars fanboy, but I admit that it is entertaining. The best character is Baby Yoda, an infant of an alien species with big ears, which, I am told, has no name. The interesting factoid, for the purposes of

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  • The 21-Year Drinking Age is Dumb and Should be Repealed

    The 21-Year Drinking Age is Dumb and Should be Repealed0

    The national discussion on prohibition has centered almost exclusively on pot, and whether states will or should be allowed to proceed with legalization. Largely forgotten is federal legislation that incentivizes states to make it illegal for young adults—those aged 18, 19, and 20—to drink alcohol.   The U.S. has one of the most stringent drinking

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  • The 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season Has Not Been Historically Unusual0

    The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season got an early start with Arlene in April, but the most powerful storms didn’t start to hit until the last week of August, when Hurricane Harvey flooded Texas and Louisiana. Harvey was the first hurricane to make landfall in Texas since Ike in 2008, and the first Category 4 hurricane

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  • The 2010s: A Decade of Disappearing Youth in America

    The 2010s: A Decade of Disappearing Youth in America0

    As we enter the 2020s, the world has become increasingly cognizant of the need for more babies after a decade of worryingly low growth. In the United States the population grew by only 0.48 percent between 2018 and 2019, according to newly released Census Bureau estimates.  That is the lowest annual growth rate since 1918. In fact, according to analysis

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  • The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea

    The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea0

    Now begins the grand effort, on display in thousands of articles and news broadcasts daily, somehow to normalize the lockdown and all its destruction of the last two months. We didn’t lock down almost the entire country in 1968/69, 1957, or 1949-1952, or even during 1918. But in a terrifying few days in March 2020,

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