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  • Rolling Stone: Men Who Abstain From Porn Are Dangerous Alt-Righters

    Rolling Stone: Men Who Abstain From Porn Are Dangerous Alt-Righters0

    There’s a scene in The Big Lebowski in which The Dude bitterly objects that the pornographer Jackie Treehorn, viewed by the local sheriff as an upstanding citizen who “draws a lot of water” in Malibu, “treats objects like women, man.” Lazy, inarticulate stoner though The Dude may be, even he understands that porn is a shady business and that

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  • Robots Ready to Scoop Ice Cream Jobs

    Robots Ready to Scoop Ice Cream Jobs0

    California isn’t nicknamed Commiefornia for nothing. Decades of limited housing, water use restrictions, overzealous environmental regulations, and now a rapidly increasing minimum wage make it difficult for entrepreneurs. But despite it all, businesses are adapting, shifting investments away from personnel and toward automation. Robots, at an increasing pace, are serving customers, as fast-food joints and grocery stores adapt to

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  • Robot Friends Aren’t the Path Out of Loneliness

    Robot Friends Aren’t the Path Out of Loneliness27

    Mark Zuckerberg thinks you don’t have enough friends. Yes, the king of that behemoth we all know and – ahem – love as Facebook has identified a serious problem in the lives of Americans and, never fear, is here to help. His solution? AI friends. The average American has around three friends but would prefer

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  • Robert Nisbet’s Ten Conditions of Revolution

    Robert Nisbet’s Ten Conditions of Revolution0

    One of the twentieth century’s most astute observers of society, sociologist, historian, and man of letters, Professor Robert Nisbet (1913-1996), offered ten conditions of revolution. By this, he meant not what we want to label revolution (which is cheap and easy to do), but what really constitutes revolution. He wrote these after years of observing,

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  • Robert Frost, Original Sin, and Why Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

    Robert Frost, Original Sin, and Why Good Fences Make Good Neighbors0

    “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” wrote poet Robert Frost. In the opening line to his famous poem, “Mending Wall,” Frost explores one of the mysteries of fallen human nature. Everyone feels both a need for and an aversion to order. His questioning of the role of walls tries to explain this contradiction.

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  • Robert E. Lee Wasn’t Hitler

    Robert E. Lee Wasn’t Hitler0

    Many Americans are aware of the effort to remove Confederate monuments across America.  Whether one believes the effort is a justified action or misguided iconoclasm, there is no question the debate has opened old wounds. There are valid reasons why one may not one wish to have in their city or university a monument honoring

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