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What Is Capitalism and Where Did It Start?0
- Economics
- August 14, 2017
In a recent essay for The Imaginative Conservative, I claimed that capitalism had its origins in England. I had expected such a sweeping statement to raise the ire or the eyebrows of some readers and was not surprised that it elicited a puzzled response. “When,” one correspondent inquired of me, “did capitalism begin in England? Did it not start
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The Violence in Charlottesville 0
- Culture
- August 14, 2017
The vast majority of people in the United States have no interest whatsoever in street battles between the alt-right (better described today in more poignant terms) and the counter-protesters. Most people have normal problems like paying bills, dealing with kids, getting health care, keeping life together under all the usual strains, and mostly want these
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Would-Be Tyrants Capture Language to Control Thought 0
- Culture
- August 14, 2017
Today’s counter-revolution against liberty is being fought on a number of fronts in American society. One is on college and university campuses across the country, where the ideology of “political correctness” is strangling freedom of speech and smothering intellectual controversy and debate. Critical to this campaign is the capture of language. It is through our
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Liz Harman and the ‘Schrödinger’s Baby’ Abortion Argument 0
- Culture
- August 14, 2017
A couple of weeks ago, Princeton professor Liz Harman joined James Franco and Eliot Michaelson (whoever that is) to discuss the morality of early abortion. The essence of her logically incoherent argument is that the morality of abortion depends on whether or not an abortion took place. More specifically, whether or not an “early fetus” has “moral
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Bill Maher is Starting to Sound Like Pat Buchanan on Immigration 0
- Culture
- August 14, 2017
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s Real Time, host Bill Maher sounded a little like—forgive me—Pat Buchanan. Discussing immigration and multiculturalism in America with guests Jon Meacham and Fareed Zakaria, Maher said immigration was a topic “worthy of debate,” particularly since the United States has had difficulty assimilating immigrants in recent decades. “One of the first
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Why Didn’t Sanctions Stop North Korea’s Missile Program?0
- International
- August 14, 2017
North Korea’s long-range missile program has made significant technological advances in the past few months. For most of the past 20 years, the international community has struggled to stop this kind of progress. Kim Jong Un’s plan to target four test missiles approximately 20 miles off the coast of the U.S. territory of Guam shows just how
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