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  • Media Bury Police Officer’s Race in Charlotte Shooting

    Media Bury Police Officer’s Race in Charlotte Shooting0

    Violence erupted in the streets of Charlotte Tuesday and Wednesday following the police shooting of Keith L. Scott, a 43-year-old black man. The facts of the shooting remain murky. Police say Scott was shot after he exited his vehicle brandishing a gun. A lawyer for Scott’s family, however, said that the shooting victim “did not

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  • Media and Trump Share Blame for the Death of Truth

    Media and Trump Share Blame for the Death of Truth0

    The Washington Post recently criticized President Trump’s Tweetstorm about being wiretapped, mocking his claims as baseless. They argue that he’s sowing dissent and making up facts to distract the media from important issues. The Post neglected to mention that the FBI and other agencies have been surveilling Trump’s advisors, or that in October the FBI

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  • Media Admits Russian Bots Thing is ‘Total Bullsh*t’

    Media Admits Russian Bots Thing is ‘Total Bullsh*t’0

    We’ve pointed out that the narrative that “the Russians did it” is getting a little out of control. BuzzFeed apparently agrees. Wednesday, in a piece titled “Stop Blaming Russian Bots For Everything,” the media outlet said enough is enough. “By now you know the drill: massive news event happens, journalists scramble to figure out what’s

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  • Mechanizing and Destroying

    Mechanizing and Destroying0

    • September 2, 2015

    Over at First Things, Peter J. Leithart writes about the rise of industrialism and the death of masculinity. He uses Philipp Blom’s books Fracture and The Vertigo Years as the core for his discussion. For 21st century man, we have grown up in a world of industrialism and ever-increasing technology. We don’t know anything different

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  • Meat-eating Made Homo Sapiens Brainy and Brawny

    Meat-eating Made Homo Sapiens Brainy and Brawny0

    While it may well be that veganism is “no longer relegated to the fringes of society where for so long it was mocked for being ‘weird’ or ‘extreme’,” it still seems a stretch to say, as a Forbes article did a year ago, that “veganism is going mainstream” and “vegan living is starting to become the norm.”

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  • Meat Eaters Beware: The (Es)Steak Tax is Coming

    Meat Eaters Beware: The (Es)Steak Tax is Coming0

    • November 15, 2018

    Some economists want to make it more expensive for the less well-off to enjoy a clear revealed pleasure: eating red and processed meat. The average household in the poorest fifth of the income distribution dedicates 1.3 percent of spending towards it. That’s over double average household spending in the richest quintile. Yet meat is now a new “public

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