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Fake Meat Is Just Part of the Movement Toward Artificial Everything 0
- Culture
- September 12, 2019
The next time you go to the restaurant and order a steak, don’t be surprised if the waiter who serves it is wearing a laboratory smock and a medical mask – and lecturing you about your environmental responsibilities. When I first heard about the development of artificial meat, I knew there was something sinister about
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Did California Just Kill the Gig Economy?0
- Economics
- September 12, 2019
California may have just passed a death sentence on the gig economy. Late Tuesday night, as many California residents slept in their beds, the state legislature passed a bill that is expected to impact hundreds of thousands of independent contractors across the state. For months now, the state assembly has been debating controversial legislation seeking
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I’m a Feminist Who Was Purged by the Trans Left 0
- Culture
- September 12, 2019
In 2015, I wrote my first piece on transgender ideology and practice. I co-wrote it, because these were perspectives that I was frankly uneasy to voice on my own. And I had good reason to be wary. My views would later destroy friendships, my theater company, and my ability to make work in the indie theater community
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Stop the Exploitation of Greta Thunberg 0
- Culture
- September 11, 2019
Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, 16, became a global celebrity for her message of climate-change alarmism. “I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act,” she told the World Economic Forum in Davos this year. Greta is currently on a tour of North and
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How to Make Health Care Unaffordable and Inaccessible 1
- Economics
- September 11, 2019
Whether it’s Medicare for All or some other variant of a single-payer plan, the leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are in agreement that more government control will make health care more affordable and accessible. The presumption behind these plans is that there is currently too much freedom in the health care industry, and only more
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Fate and Accountability: The Choice Makes Us Who We Are 0
- Culture
- September 11, 2019
In “The Appointment In Samarra,” his brief retelling of a an ancient Mesopotamian tale, W. Somerset Maugham offers this look at fate: Death speaks: There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now
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