If what my web analytics tell me is true, many of you reading this article have above-average IQs, but only a small percentage of you would crack the upper class in terms of income. Why is that? As the edge-laden question goes, “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?” Well, IQ does have some
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The race riots in Charlottesville, VA, have provided the liberal media with another opportunity to engage in the moral posturing at which they are so proficient. Racism is evil, but it is fortunately now exceptional and weak-to-non-existent as a political force. We don’t have institutional racism anymore, so we have to invent opportunities to lure
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North Korea’s long-range missile program has made significant technological advances in the past few months. For most of the past 20 years, the international community has struggled to stop this kind of progress. Kim Jong Un’s plan to target four test missiles approximately 20 miles off the coast of the U.S. territory of Guam shows just how
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In a recent essay for The Imaginative Conservative, I claimed that capitalism had its origins in England. I had expected such a sweeping statement to raise the ire or the eyebrows of some readers and was not surprised that it elicited a puzzled response. “When,” one correspondent inquired of me, “did capitalism begin in England? Did it not start
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The vast majority of people in the United States have no interest whatsoever in street battles between the alt-right (better described today in more poignant terms) and the counter-protesters. Most people have normal problems like paying bills, dealing with kids, getting health care, keeping life together under all the usual strains, and mostly want these
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A couple of weeks ago, Princeton professor Liz Harman joined James Franco and Eliot Michaelson (whoever that is) to discuss the morality of early abortion. The essence of her logically incoherent argument is that the morality of abortion depends on whether or not an abortion took place. More specifically, whether or not an “early fetus” has “moral
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