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  • Rioters Vandalize Memorial to Victims of Communism

    Rioters Vandalize Memorial to Victims of Communism0

    A memorial to the more than 100 million people killed by communism was vandalized in the midst of the protests resulting from George Floyd’s violent death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. (1/2) Last night the Victims of Communism Memorial in DC was vandalized. You do not advance justice by defacing our country’s memorial

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  • Rights and Political Revolution: When is Violence Justified?

    Rights and Political Revolution: When is Violence Justified?0

    When Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his planned retirement from the Court, progressives around the country expressed despair and panic. Many lamented how landmark Court decisions such as Roe v. Wade could be overturned. A common element of these lamentations has been an explicit reference to human rights, which is the focus of a

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  • Righting the Chaos in an Increasingly Strange World

    Righting the Chaos in an Increasingly Strange World1

    I’ve noticed a common theme in many conversations this last year. They’re peppered with variations of the refrain, “It’s strange out there.” That line is often tacked on to the end of conversations about politics, culture, or some news item that would have been unthinkable 10 years ago, but is now commonplace. There seems to

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  • Right and Wrong According to “Secret Agent” C.S. Lewis

    Right and Wrong According to “Secret Agent” C.S. Lewis0

    While browsing through headlines this morning, one in particular caught my eye: “C.S. Lewis Was a Secret Government Agent.” My curiosity got the better of me and I clicked on the article by Harry Lee Poe. Poe, a Lewis aficionado, described how he recently stumbled across a recording of C.S. Lewis on eBay. The recording

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  • Riding the Underground with Winston Churchill

    Riding the Underground with Winston Churchill4

    Five minutes and 47 seconds. That’s the length of the scene when Prime Minister Winston Churchill avails himself of the Underground, also called the Tube, in the film Darkest Hour (2017), a brief and fictitious cinematic interlude, yes, but one bulging with messages for us today. On boarding the carriage, as the English call it,

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  • Richard Thaler Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

    Richard Thaler Wins Nobel Prize in Economics0

    The University of Chicago’s Richard Thaler has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in economics. Thaler is a leading practitioner of behavioral economics, the application of psychology to problems of valuation, choice, exchange, and pricing. Following Mises, most Austrian economists have distinguished sharply between praxeology, the logical analysis of action, and psychology, the behavioral motivations and

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