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  • Cheesecake Factory’s Free Cheesecake Disaster Is a Lesson in Scarcity and Prices

    Cheesecake Factory’s Free Cheesecake Disaster Is a Lesson in Scarcity and Prices0

    It sounded like a great idea. To celebrate its 40th anniversary, in November Cheesecake Factory announced it was giving away 40,000 pieces of cheesecake to customers who used the DoorDash app to place orders. Giving away, as in free. What could possibly go wrong by giving away 40,000 slices of the most delicious cake on

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  • 9 Big Questions About Democratic Socialism

    9 Big Questions About Democratic Socialism0

    Democratic socialism is hot in the United States right now. Both the American media and young people seem to be enamored of the thought of steeply progressive, redistributive tax rates designed to achieve some vision of justice. As with most public policy ideas, we tend to get pretty far down the road before we ask

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  • Why Johnny Still Can’t Read

    Why Johnny Still Can’t Read1

    In 1955, prompted by the reading problems experience by the child of a friend, Rudolf Flesch wrote the book Why Johnny Can’t Read. The book became a huge bestseller and is still in print today.   Flesch realized that the reason many children were not learning to read was because of method of reading instruction

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  • Toxic Masculinity: The Alpha Straw-Man

    Toxic Masculinity: The Alpha Straw-Man0

    According to the intelligentsia, many, if not most, males today are diseased. The etiology of this illness is prolonged exposure to the toxic substance of traditional masculinity. No one is safe. The substance is everywhere, embedded in our traditions and media, and has been for generations. There is an epidemic of emotionally stunted barbarians contaminating

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  • The Argument Against Illegal Immigration No One Wants to Make

    The Argument Against Illegal Immigration No One Wants to Make0

    Last year, as a member of a Southern California moms’ group, I received an email from a woman with a dilemma. Her part-time nanny, who had been in her employ a little over a year, was asking for a raise, from $25 to $30-an-hour. The mom wanted a basis for comparison before she said “No.”

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  • Meet the Philosopher Behind the Ideology of Anti-Fascists

    Meet the Philosopher Behind the Ideology of Anti-Fascists0

    In our last article on fascism, we promised we would explore the philosophical roots of Antifa in order to better understand how they justify the use of fascist tactics in the name of fighting it. Antifa’s fascist tendencies are apparent by a simple surface diagnosis, but a deeper analysis reveals the bankrupt ideology that fuels

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