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America’s Opioid Addiction Is Worse Than You Think 0
- Culture
- June 2, 2016
By now, most Americans know that the United States has seen a sharp increase in opioid-overdose deaths over the past decade. The opioid problem is indeed global. In Afghanistan, for example, a major if not the major source of funding for the Taliban is the sale of poppies, the opium derived from them, and the chemical paste containing it, which are the materials for making heroin. But
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The ‘Everyone Gets a Trophy’ Mentality is Out of Control 0
- Culture
- June 2, 2016
Mark up another victory for the “everyone-gets-a-trophy” mentality. The latest victim of this mindset is a high school honor student from Texas. A local ABC news affiliate reports: “National Honor Society (NHS) stoles are frequent sight at high school graduation ceremonies around the country, but one Plano Senior High School student is frustrated that he
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Yale Students Petition to ‘Abolish’ Major English Poets 0
- Culture
- June 2, 2016
The petition starts out polite enough. “We, undergraduate students in the Yale English Department, write to urge the faculty to reevaluate the undergraduate curriculum.” Then it gets a little chippy. We oppose the continued existence of the Major English Poets sequence as the primary prerequisite for further study. It is unacceptable that a Yale student
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The Dangers of ‘Hate Speech’ Rules 0
- Culture
- June 2, 2016
Russell Kirk argued that to engage in politics and ideas we must “draw the sword of imagination”. By that he meant, we must imagine all the ways in which a policy or an idea may do either good or harm. Recently, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media giants announced that they will be working with
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A Bunch of Burke Quotes 0
- Culture
- June 2, 2016
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but
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Are Civil Forfeiture Laws Basically Legalized Robbery?0
- Economics
- June 1, 2016
A few years ago, The New Yorker published an article (“Taken”) detailing civil asset forfeiture abuses in America. Sarah Stillman, a staff writer at the magazine and a visiting scholar at NYU, chronicled several examples of citizens stripped of cash, cars, and even homes even though they had not been charged with a crime. The
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