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  • Silicon Valley Wants to Read Your Mind – That’s a Problem

    Silicon Valley Wants to Read Your Mind – That’s a Problem0

    Not content with monitoring almost everything you do online, Facebook now wants to read your mind as well. The social media giant recently announced a breakthrough in its plan to create a device that reads people’s brainwaves to allow them to type just by thinking. And Elon Musk wants to go even further. One of

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  • Incidentally White

    Incidentally White0

    “[T]o speak in general terms of the prototypical Southern conservative we would say first of all that he was not an alienated man.”—M.E. Bradford, “Where We Were Born and Raised” White nationalism has long existed on the borderlands of disaffected conservatism. Among its several denominations is the movement known as identitarianism, which combines the ideology of white nationalism with language

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  • 80 Years of the Allies: Don’t Forget Their Stories

    80 Years of the Allies: Don’t Forget Their Stories0

    September 3rd marks 80 years since the United Kingdom, France, Australia, and New Zealand formed The Allies, declaring war on Nazi Germany after the latter invaded Poland.  Over the course of the next six years, these four Allies would be joined by nations, territories, colonies, and dominions, all fighting bitterly to stem the tide of fascism

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  • The Root of Our Troubles

    The Root of Our Troubles0

    (This story was originally published by Intellectual Takeout on January 28, 2019.) Like you, I’m horrified by the exponential growth in social chaos and totalitarian impulses ravaging our country. It seems as though nothing makes sense, there isn’t a unifying cause tying together the upheaval of American culture. Of course, that’s the nature of chaos,

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  • The College Board Scraps Controversial ‘Adversity Score,’ but Continues Plan to Weigh College Admissions

    The College Board Scraps Controversial ‘Adversity Score,’ but Continues Plan to Weigh College Admissions0

    It appears that many Americans still believe that merit is the most important factor in determining who will get into our top colleges and universities. On Tuesday, the College Board announced – after receiving considerable criticism – that it will no longer pursue adding an “Adversity Score” to the SAT. In May, the organization announced that it would start ranking

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  • Steve Jobs’s Unveiling of the iPhone Holds a Timeless Economic Lesson

    Steve Jobs’s Unveiling of the iPhone Holds a Timeless Economic Lesson0

    Steve Jobs was a great visionary. But just how far did his vision extend? If you examine the history of the iPhone, it turns out his vision didn’t extend as far as we might think. In his book Digital Minimalism, computer science professor Cal Newport reveals that the original vision Jobs had for the iPhone

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