In case you haven’t noticed, there’s been a popular trend to rename various geographical and manmade landmarks. The renaming attempts often revolve around issues of racism, particularly in relation to whether an individual was pro-slavery. The latest incident in this line of renaming attempts occurred at a high school in Madison, Wisconsin. As local publication
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1. Woodrow Wilson on the rise of the KKK “The white men were aroused by a mere instinct of self-preservation — until at last there sprung into existence a great Kuklux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.” – Wilson in A History of the American People (1902) 2. Abraham
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As if there were not enough real aggression in the world, the hothouse climate of American universities has bred infestations of “microaggression”. This noxious weed is causing countless students and staff to break out in a rash of indignation and hurt feelings, and is spreading rapidly through society. The remedy seems to be to bring
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Today there are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, and Islam will supposedly supplant Christianity as the world’s largest religion before this century is complete. These facts have many in the Western world frightened. At the same time, the Muslim world does not currently represent a united military threat to the Western world. The foreign
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Moral hazard, easy money, and cheap credit have never produced good results. History is littered with examples of financial disaster brought about by monetary manipulation originating in central banks and then spreading to other parts of the system. One would think that the 2007/8 credit crisis, whose effects have not quite withered away, would teach
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Last year, a piece I did titled “Why Professors Are Writing Crap That Nobody Reads” generated some attention. In it, I pointed out what is commonly known among university professors today, namely, that most of the “peer-reviewed” essays and books they write are read by an extremely small handful of people (like 5-10, half of
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