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  • How Venezuelans Can Recover from the Sickness of Socialism

    How Venezuelans Can Recover from the Sickness of Socialism0

    And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works – French economist and statesman Frédéric Bastiat, 1850. Venezuela’s socialist

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  • What is “Toxic Masculinity”?

    What is “Toxic Masculinity”?1

    The failure of current culture to define the term “toxic masculinity” (as mentioned in the recent Gillette ad) is a serious problem. Does it mean a subset of masculinity is toxic? Or, does it mean masculinity itself is toxic? If masculinity itself is toxic (as some people claim is the point of the recent American

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  • What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Doesn’t Understand about Socialism

    What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Doesn’t Understand about Socialism0

    G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) and H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) were near contemporaries, but they were not kindred souls. One was an Englishman; the other an American. One was a Catholic Christian; the other a lifelong agnostic. One dubbed himself a distributist (as opposed to a capitalist or a socialist), while the other was an unabashed

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  • Has the IVF Industry Been Lying to Millennials?

    Has the IVF Industry Been Lying to Millennials?0

    Recently the Sydney Morning Herald reported that a technique known as “endometrial scratching”, used in fertility clinics, has been found to be useless. A three-year study carried out in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, showed that the IVF add-on, costing up to $700 in Australia, did nothing to boost the chances of falling pregnant through in vitro fertilisation. Too

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  • Why Bad Arguments Are So Persuasive

    Why Bad Arguments Are So Persuasive0

    A few years ago, two of my younger siblings were helping in the kitchen when my little brother decided to take my little sister’s snack. When asked why he would do such a thing, he looked at my mom and explained, as though it should have been obvious, that he took her snack because she

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  • Christopher Hitchens on Why We Desperately Need Free Speech

    Christopher Hitchens on Why We Desperately Need Free Speech0

    One sentence. Five restrictions on the power of the government of the United States. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for

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