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Why I No Longer Support Government Run Healthcare 0
- Politics
- August 27, 2019
In my medical training, a fellow physician tried to convince me that my liberal leanings on health care were misguided. While I firmly believed that the government had an important role in providing access to medical care – particularly to the underserved – my colleague argued that the government’s role in, well, anything, should be practically nonexistent. I remained
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Trump: Somebody Had to Confront China 0
- Economics
- August 27, 2019
Let’s pay a visit to Little China in Front Royal, Virginia. I’m not talking about China City Buffet, that wonderful restaurant where I used to take my grandkids for their birthdays. Nor do I mean the nearby Virginia International Academy, which despite its name caters only to Chinese students transitioning into American universities. I do
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Why America Shouldn’t Be Too Concerned About Venezuela 0
- International
- August 27, 2019
Perhaps Karl Marx’s greatest (and most quoted) aphorism is: “History repeats itself; once as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Nowhere is the truth of that clearer than in the case of Venezuela. When the late Hugo Chavez was elected to the presidency there in 1998, everybody in Washington imagined that this was a replay
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The Difference Between Classical and Traditional Education 6
- Culture
- August 27, 2019
Several years ago I got into a conversation about classical education in which my conversation partner asked, “Isn’t that the kind of education that all those overachieving homeschoolers are into?” I had to laugh. Yes, classical education has that reputation. But the high-achieving nature of classical education hasn’t deterred interest. In fact, classical curricula are proliferating
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Kids Ordered to Pay Sales Tax at Children’s Expo Receive a Sad Lesson in Entrepreneurship 0
- Economics
- August 26, 2019
Twelve-year-old Lucie Wise couldn’t wait to open her own business. On three separate occasions, she had accompanied her mother to the Children’s Entrepreneur Market – an expo of child-run businesses hosted annually by the Utah nonprofit Libertas Institute – dreaming of the day she could set up her own booth and sell her wares to curious passersby.
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The Horrors of Modern Public Opinion 0
- History
- August 26, 2019
In a previous essay at The Imaginative Conservative, I looked at Christopher Dawson’s critical fear that the United States and the United Kingdom had become fascistic in their respective quests to fight fascism. Dawson, of course, was not alone in expressing such a belief. C.S. Lewis had claimed the same in his profound essay, Abolition of Man (1943), and his
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Why I No Longer Support Government Run Healthcare 0