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  • Why Speaking Like Pepé Le Pew May Soon Be a Crime in France

    Why Speaking Like Pepé Le Pew May Soon Be a Crime in France0

    Reuters reports that Laetitia Avia, a member of the French parliament, has said she is proposing a bill that would classify mocking a regional accent (so called “glottophobia“) as a form of prohibited discrimination. Avia’s proposal comes after former presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, a long-time member of the Socialist Party, mocked a journalist’s heavy accent by asking if someone

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  • Why Some Revolutions Fail

    Why Some Revolutions Fail0

    Soon after the start of the French Revolution on July 14, 1789, the English statesman Edmund Burke saw storm clouds on the horizon. Under the banner of “liberty, equality, and fraternity,” the French revolutionaries not only attacked the dreaded Bastille prison in Paris. They assaulted the most important historic institutions in France: the monarchy, the

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  • Why Some of Us Work So Hard

    Why Some of Us Work So Hard0

    We’ve all heard the admonitions about “workaholism”: how some people sacrifice not just fun, but also family life and even their own lives, by working insane hours when they don’t really have to. And all of us also know people who work very long hours not because they’re workaholics, but because they don’t get paid

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  • Why Some Gays Are Trying to drop Transgenders from LGBT

    Why Some Gays Are Trying to drop Transgenders from LGBT0

    Are you confused or alarmed at the rise of Transgenderism? You’re probably not alone. In fact, you might even have some unlikely allies not only in the form of radical feminists, but even gays and lesbians who feel it’s time to “Drop the T” from the LGBT movement. In November 2015 a group of gay

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  • Why Solzhenitsyn’s Line Between Good and Evil Matters

    Why Solzhenitsyn’s Line Between Good and Evil Matters5

    We want to think that the line between good and evil is clear and that individuals fall into one camp or another. In The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate

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  • Why Socialists Love the Phrase ‘It’s Not Real Socialism’

    Why Socialists Love the Phrase ‘It’s Not Real Socialism’0

    The main reason that the socialists have had the staying power that has, luckily, eluded the Nazis is the argument that these self-acclaimed socialist regimes were “not real socialism.” One influential intellectual responsible for popularizing this argument is philosopher Noam Chomsky, who postulates that socialist regimes, the USSR specifically, merely pretended to be socialist to

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