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  • Death by Selfie: Egotism as the Root of Our Troubles

    Death by Selfie: Egotism as the Root of Our Troubles0

    In an article at The Daily Wire, Joseph Curl reports that a 23-year-old Chinese crane operator, Xiao Qiumei, who had 100,000 followers on social media, fell 160 feet to her death while filming herself on a giant crane. She was the second woman to die in China in July by way of a fall in

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  • America’s ‘Great Leap Forward’ Into Socialism

    America’s ‘Great Leap Forward’ Into Socialism0

    Just seven weeks into his presidency, Joe Biden signed a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. Among the largest spending bills in history, it was passed without the vote of a single Republican. The plan sent direct payments of up to $1,400 to most Americans, extended a $300 per week unemployment insurance boost until Sept. 6

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  • The Attempt to Hoodwink the U.S. Into a Cold War With Russia

    The Attempt to Hoodwink the U.S. Into a Cold War With Russia0

    For years conservative movement figures have engaged in “value talk,” a rhetorical means of winning acceptance for pet causes that often have little to do with conservatism or traditional morality. Such value talk has often been used as a way of prodding Washington into foreign entanglements.  Leon Aron’s recent article for The Dispatch, “Welcome to the new Cold War”

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  • CNN and the Dating Game Killer

    CNN and the Dating Game Killer0

    On July 24 we learned that Rodney James Alcala, the so-called “The Dating Game Killer,” died at age 77 of natural causes. Alcala was given that name because in 1978 he appeared on The Dating Game television program, just at the same time he was carrying out a killing spree that included at least five known and

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  • When Parents Put Politics Ahead of Faith

    When Parents Put Politics Ahead of Faith0

    After giving a presentation on living a Catholic identity to my church group recently, a grade school teacher from a Catholic school approached me to talk. Noting how she struggles to get the kids engaged in learning about their faith, she declared that they simply aren’t interested in the subject—they are more eager to debate

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  • For What Will We Go to War With China?

    For What Will We Go to War With China?0

    In his final state of the nation speech Monday, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte defended his refusal to confront China over Beijing’s seizure and fortification of his country’s islets in the South China Sea. “It will be a massacre if I go and fight a war now,” said Duterte. “We are not yet a competent and

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  • Myths About Cuba Persist on the Left and Right

    Myths About Cuba Persist on the Left and Right0

    Recent debates over what to do about Cuba remain afflicted by myths, many going back to the origins of the Castros’ Communist regime. There have generally been two conflicting accounts of how this regime was established and its relation to the Cuban past, and both may need to be corrected. Some of the most childish

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  • For the GOP, ‘Limited Government’ Is for Voters, Not Donors

    For the GOP, ‘Limited Government’ Is for Voters, Not Donors0

    The Republican Party has long sung the refrain of limited government and free markets, reprimanding their constituents about the dangers of intervening in the economy. Big government and boycotts, they say, are for Democrats—we may not like what private companies do, but, hey, that’s capitalism! All of that, of course, is a lie, or at

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  • The Numbers Don’t Support Scapegoating the Unvaccinated

    The Numbers Don’t Support Scapegoating the Unvaccinated0

    If you’re tired of the pandemic and just want to go back to normal, David Frum at The Atlantic has news for you: It’s all the stupid people who refuse to take the vaccine that are prolonging our COVID misery. Oh, wait, that’s not it exactly. In actuality, it’s all Trump’s fault. Frum, once a leading

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