Blog 3 Columns

Americans Can’t Get Enough Guns 0
- Culture
- October 28, 2020
My local gun dealer’s website has a huge banner in the middle of the homepage that says, LIMITED INVENTORY—CALL AHEAD. So, a few weeks ago, that’s what I did. “Hey,” I said, “Do you guys have any Remington 870s?” “Nope.” “How about a Ruger SP101?” “Nope.” “Smith and Wesson M&P?” He just laughed. Back in
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Women, Walking Out on the Workforce Is Not Woeful 0
- Culture
- October 27, 2020
If I could summarize the many headlines I’ve seen relating to parenting lately, “Woe for Working Women” would be the slogan I would choose. The media seems to think women with children are the new victimhood class as we trudge through endless COVID purgatory. I’ll be the first to acknowledge that COVID has been hard
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The Triumph of Justice Amy Coney Barrett 0
- Politics
- October 27, 2020
“There is a tendency in our profession,” Judge Amy Coney Barrett declared at the outset of her Senate confirmation hearing, “to treat the practice of law as all-consuming, while losing sight of everything else.” But, Barrett added in her Oct. 12 opening statement, “I never let the law define my identity or crowd out the
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How to Limit Social Media’s Power Without Growing Government 0
- Culture
- October 27, 2020
Censorship by private companies is a topic that divides free marketers but has suddenly become important in the wake of Twitter and Facebook’s recent attempts to squash a New York Post story alleging corruption in the Biden family. Last year, economist James Miller argued that just as the power company can’t turn off your electricity
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Fear the Coup That Isn’t Coming 0
- Culture
- October 27, 2020
You say you want a revolution? Or a coup, or an overthrow, les barricades? Apparently so. Journalists, politicians, and academics, none of whom have thrown a punch in anger since fifth grade, are advocating, planning, and warning us the SHTF (look it up, but the last word is “fan.”) Stuff (not exactly the first word)
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American Krakzy: Mental Instability in the Public Square 0
- Culture
- October 27, 2020
Given the events of the past 10 months, preceded by four years of unceasing media rage about President Trump, I find it nearly impossible to choose a word summing up the headlines and articles I read every morning. On top of the pandemic and the summer riots, we now are nearing the end of the
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What Is Originalism? Debunking the Myths 0
- Politics
- October 26, 2020
Originalism has featured prominently in each of the last three Supreme Court confirmation battles – those of Neil Gorsuch in 2017, Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 and now Amy Coney Barrett. Each time, misconceptions about this theory of constitutional interpretation have swirled: Isn’t originalism self-defeating because the Founders weren’t originalist? Don’t originalists ignore the amendments written
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The New Feudalism 0
- History
- October 26, 2020
On February 28, the idea of locking down and smashing economies and human rights the world over was unthinkable to most of us but lustily imagined by intellectuals hoping to conduct a new social/political experiment. On that day, New York Times reporter Donald McNeil released a shocking article: “To Take On the Coronavirus, Go Medieval
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The History of the Supreme Court in Nine Justices: Penumbras and Stare Decisis 0
- History
- October 26, 2020
The final three justices in this Supreme Court series bring us from 1939 to the present. 7. William O. Douglas (April 17, 1939 – November 12, 1975) Appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to succeed Justice Louis Brandeis, Douglas was confirmed by the Senate in a 62-4 vote. He served with Justice James Clark McReynolds
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Americans Can’t Get Enough Guns 0