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  • Why Is School Compulsory?

    Why Is School Compulsory?0

    School has nothing to do with freedom. First, there are state laws mandating that you have either attended school or have learned the very specific kinds of things you’d learn in school. That form of education is not a choice: it is legally compulsory. But schooling is culturally compulsory as well. That’s what Austrian philosopher

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  • Why is Prostitution Still Illegal?

    Why is Prostitution Still Illegal?0

    Over the weekend, I read about a prostitution sting in Lansing, Michigan, that resulted in 49 arrests. Many of the arrests likely went down like this one: A man walked into a spa on Lansing’s south side on an early February morning last year and paid $40 for a 30-minute massage. Moments later, a woman

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  • Why is It Increasingly Difficult to Make Friends?

    Why is It Increasingly Difficult to Make Friends?0

    • September 8, 2015

    I recently wrote about the decline of community and the losses which ensue from such a state. In response, one of our readers commented, “Best article of the day….I’m 56, single, can count my closest acquaintances and girlfriend on 1 hand.” Judging from a recent New York Post article, our commenter is not alone in

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  • Why is it always Canada?

    Why is it always Canada?0

    After Trump’s most recent victories in Michigan, Mississippi, and Hawaii, taking three out of the four available states, there are renewed pledges to “never vote for trump” and then, if that fails, “to move to Canada” if he wins. Why is it always Canada? The thought came to me unoriginally after seeing the following image

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  • Why is Humility Important?

    Why is Humility Important?0

    An awful lot of people in this world are really puffed up about themselves. One of the character traits I wish were much more widely practiced these days is good old-fashioned humility. T. S. Eliot said, “Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well

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  • Why Is Higher Ed So Expensive?

    Why Is Higher Ed So Expensive?2

    Two things seem like they should go without saying: People use their own money more efficiently than they use someone else’s, and the more you subsidize a thing the more of it you tend to get. Both profoundly apply to American higher education, a teetering tower of ivory made simultaneously skyscraping and bloated by federal

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