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  • How PC Humor Signals an Anxious Society

    How PC Humor Signals an Anxious Society0

    In my late teens I ran across a 1942 book entitled “They Loved to Laugh,” by Kathryn Worth. “What a great title,” I thought, mostly because I, too, love to laugh. There’s something so delightful about seeing the funny side of mundane life, and then letting that happiness and humor bubble up and spill over.

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  • Two and Two Now Equal Five

    Two and Two Now Equal Five0

    A few years ago, I thought it was time to retire George Orwell’s 1984 to the attic. My years of teaching literature convinced me that Huxley’s Brave New World was more likely to unfold: a world in which an elite might control the rest of us through the erasure of history and literature, but who

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  • The Startling Price Tag of Paid Family Leave

    The Startling Price Tag of Paid Family Leave0

    A new report suggests that the Democrats’ FAMILY Act paid leave proposal is substantially more costly than previously estimated. The difference is meaningful: using more realistic assumptions, the cost of national paid leave is 7-fold greater than previous estimates, and taxpayers would be picking up the tab. The American Action Forum analysis uses data from Cato’s paid family

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  • White Privilege: A Thing of the Past?

    White Privilege: A Thing of the Past?0

    White privilege. For years now, we’ve heard some folks sling that term around along with that verbal slap, “Check your privilege.” But here’s a question: Does white privilege exist in 2019? Or is it just a way of smearing whites? First, a definition of white privilege. The online Cambridge Dictionary defines white privilege as “the

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  • How the Minimum Wage Affected Workers During (and After) the Great Recession

    How the Minimum Wage Affected Workers During (and After) the Great Recession0

    The law of demand is one of the most fundamental concepts of economics. This law states that, if all other factors remain equal, the higher the price of a good, the less people will demand that good. Most of the time this is too obvious to mention. Yet people seem to think we can suspend

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  • You’ve Just Been Called a Bigot. Now What?

    You’ve Just Been Called a Bigot. Now What?0

    So you have just been accused of being a bigot of some kind—you’re a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe, or some other horrible-sounding name. Don’t fool yourself. Everyone is a potential target. Anyone can be called out. Forget intersectionality. African-Americans, women, LGBTQ, Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, and all manner of foreign nationals have

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