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  • How to Make America Smart Again

    How to Make America Smart Again0

    • March 15, 2019

    Over the past week America has been fascinated and appalled by the latest college admissions cheating scandal. Much of the attention has been focused on the bribing of coaches to get kids into school with fake athletic credentials. But the even more absurd part of the scandal is that parents were paying between $15,000 and $75,000

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  • The Most Intolerant County in America (and the Most Tolerant City)

    The Most Intolerant County in America (and the Most Tolerant City)0

    The Atlantic recently asked PredictWise, an analytics firm, to rank US counties based on partisan prejudice (“affective polarization”). The results are now in, and they are fascinating. [Editor’s note: Image shown below] The most intolerant country was not Rabun County in northeastern Georgia, where the film Deliverance was shot. Nor was it in Albany County,

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  • Former Navy SEAL Suggests 3 Reasons Young People Are Buying into Socialism

    Former Navy SEAL Suggests 3 Reasons Young People Are Buying into Socialism0

    Recently Texas congressman and general uber-mensch Dan Crenshaw made an appearance on a Sunday talk show.   After arm-wrestling and talking for a long time about the former Navy SEAL’s own journey in politics, Crenshaw was questioned on why so many of today’s young people are going all-in on the “democratic socialism” touted by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie

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  • The Myth of American Meritocracy

    The Myth of American Meritocracy0

    The most destructive and pervasive myth in America today is that we live in a meritocracy. Our elites, so the myth goes, earned their places at Yale and Harvard, on Wall Street and in Washington—not because of the accident of their birth, but because they are better, stronger, and smarter than the rest of us. Therefore, they

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  • Questions, But No Answer

    Questions, But No Answer0

    Questions about various events, propositions, and ideas in our culture and politics have me bemused, baffled, and bewildered. As a young woman in Tennessee once said when I asked for directions, “Well, I am just plain bumfuzzled.” Bumfuzzled. That’s it exactly. My inquiries below may strike readers as intended to provoke, but provocation is the

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  • 7 Ways to Find Truth in a Clickbait World

    7 Ways to Find Truth in a Clickbait World0

    Whether it’s the hype about the MoMo Challenge, the Jussie Smollett hate-crime hoax, the Fyre Festival swindle, or politicians scaring us to blazes about this or that emergency, it’s hard to distinguish fact from fiction and prudent ideas from rash action.   We live in a time when too much of our news resembles something

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