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  • Magazine in 2013: Socialist Venezuela an ‘Economic Miracle’

    Magazine in 2013: Socialist Venezuela an ‘Economic Miracle’0

    A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Venezuela. Inflation is rampant (700 percent, as of Tuesday) and there is not enough food to feed the nation’s 31 million mouths. U.S. companies are pulling out.  One of the reasons the crisis in Venezuela is so tragic is that it was so predictable. Mary Anastasia O’Grady, writing in

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  • What is Law?

    What is Law?0

    In the West, while there is a very long history of debate over law in society, the assumptions upon which the law rested have often been broadly shared, having come from the synthesis of Christianity and Hellenism or, as it is often referred to, the Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian heritage. In The Law (1850), the political and

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  • The Push to Give Elsa a Girlfriend

    The Push to Give Elsa a Girlfriend0

    From its launch in late 2013, the Disney box office sensation Frozen has been widely read as an allegory of LGBT experience. Heroine Elsa is a princess like no other. The special power that has to be hidden is her suppressed lesbian nature and its potential to provoke a social revolution. Her passionate song, “Let It

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  • 5 Telltale Signs That You’re a Sapiosexual

    5 Telltale Signs That You’re a Sapiosexual0

    Is there anything more complex and multifaceted than human attraction?  My best friend and myself have discussed in the past how different we are when it comes to the women that we find attractive.  While we can usually agree on people who are conventionally beautiful, our personal tastes seem to be on entirely opposite ends of the

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  • Study of National Differences requires Tough-Mindedness

    Study of National Differences requires Tough-Mindedness0

    Ruth Benedict was a cultural anthropologist enlisted during World War II to help American leadership better understand the cultural attitudes and thinking of the Japanese. In 1946 she published her findings and views on the topic in The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. While much of the book covers the Japanese, it also provides many nuggets

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  • Why the Sex-Selective Abortion Debate Scares Feminists

    Why the Sex-Selective Abortion Debate Scares Feminists0

    It’s been a quarter century since Harvard economist Amartya Sen published research showing that more than 100 million women were “missing” from the global population.  Where were they? Two decades later, the answer to that question became clearer. In her Pulitzer Prize finalist book Unnatural Selection, Mara Hvistendahl detailed how females around the world were

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