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  • The Executioner’s Song: The Best Nonfiction Novel I’ve Read

    The Executioner’s Song: The Best Nonfiction Novel I’ve Read0

    My wife’s sister, we’ll call her Wendy, is a fellow book worm. She likes to pick my brain for recommendations whenever we drop in around the holidays to enjoy their hospitality on “the farm.” (They grow cranberries on a spread in central Wisconsin.)   Suggesting books is a job I relish, but of late it

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  • The Great Equalizer

    The Great Equalizer0

    It’s odd that those who are often calling for ever greater equality in all things, are the same who are often the most vocally calling to get rid of guns. Understandably, the thinking goes that if guns are gone then we all have a great and more equal opportunity to live in safety. Perhaps. But

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  • 5 Suspensions From 2016 That Show a Common-Sense Deficiency in Our Schools

    5 Suspensions From 2016 That Show a Common-Sense Deficiency in Our Schools0

    In recent years, the rise of zero-tolerance discipline policies in schools has resulted in suspensions for … interesting incidents. 2016 was no exception. Some of the craziest incidents include: 1. The Chicken Nugget Suspension In early November, USA Today reported that a Tennessee teenager was suspended over allegedly taking too many chicken nuggets in the

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  • Why People Love (and Hate) Facebook

    Why People Love (and Hate) Facebook0

    You got a problem with Facebook? Go ahead. Think of what it is. Say it loud and proud. It is probably one of the one thousand or so common complaints listed at the book-length Wikipedia page: Criticism of Facebook. It’s been heard before. A thousand times. You get the impression that this must be the

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  • George Orwell’s Review of Mein Kampf

    George Orwell’s Review of Mein Kampf0

    The political upheavals of 2016 have left western elites dumbfounded. After all we’ve done for them, they ask, how could people reject progress? Many people in the developed world are turning toward authoritarianism, closed markets and a renewed nationalism. Can you blame the elites for being shocked? Especially when these same people were so cloistered

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  • Education in America Before the Education System

    Education in America Before the Education System1

    Before America’s public education system was created around 1840, the vast majority of Americans were illiterate and walked around with dirt on their faces.  At least, that seems to be the impression shared by most people today. But it turns out that education, like nature, abhors a vacuum. In the decades after the American Revolution—much

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