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  • Maybe New York City Deserves to End

    Maybe New York City Deserves to End0

    Americans are leaving big cities in droves. The Daily Mail, writing about the exodus from Los Angeles quotes a local resident as saying, “The streets look like Haiti after the earthquake. It’s dirty, dangerous and work has dried up. Even when studios start to open up, people will choose to work from other places.” In the first part

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  • Maybe Liberals Are Just Better Utilitarians

    Maybe Liberals Are Just Better Utilitarians0

    We keep hearing that conservatism in America is in crisis, that its messages don’t resonate, that it continues to lose political ground. These woes are typically ascribed the conservative movement’s lack of a dominant narrative. But I actually think conservatism does have a dominant narrative. In fact, it’s the same dominant narrative of liberalism. The

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  • Maybe America Was Never ‘Great’?

    Maybe America Was Never ‘Great’?0

    By now all of you have heard or seen Trump’s slogan of “Make America Great Again.” The slogan is a timely attempt to rally the still-patriotic contingent of U.S. citizens who hold to some level of American exceptionalism. But since first hearing the slogan I’ve had a nagging thought lingering in my head: Maybe America

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  • Maxine Waters’ Anti-Cop Rhetoric is Getting Black People Killed

    Maxine Waters’ Anti-Cop Rhetoric is Getting Black People Killed0

    In June 2018, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., publicly exhorted her supporters to harass cabinet members of the Trump administration. At an outdoor rally in Los Angeles, Waters, with microphone in hand and amplifiers nearby, shouted: “Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet

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  • Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

    Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers0

    Oddly enough in our hyper-cynical society, there seems to be little questioning about underlying goals of some of the #BlackLivesMatter protests and related on-campus activism. Not to worry, Tom Wolfe did the job, pulling back the curtain for us way back in 1970. That’s probably a good thing since there probably aren’t any authors who

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  • Math Explains Why the Democrats May Have Trouble Picking a Candidate

    Math Explains Why the Democrats May Have Trouble Picking a Candidate0

    With 24 declared candidates for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination (and counting), many Americans are likely wondering how the party will ultimately make up its mind and settle on the best candidate. As mathematicians, we wondered whether there might not even be a best candidate. In fact, this is an established mathematical paradox. The more

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