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  • Solar Panels Literally Produce Tons of Toxic Waste

    Solar Panels Literally Produce Tons of Toxic Waste0

    A Popular Choice Solar panels have been heralded as the alternative to fossil fuels for decades. Most readers have likely seen exciting headlines claiming we could power the world’s energy demands multiple times were we simply to cover the Sahara Desert with a solar farm the size of China. The fact that such endeavors would

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  • How Many People Must Die to Fix the Planet?

    How Many People Must Die to Fix the Planet?0

    On the 40th anniversary of the first world climate conference in 1979, the journal Bioscience published the ominously titled “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency.” “Scientists,” the Warning begins, “have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to ‘tell it like it is.’ On the basis of this obligation…we declare, with

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  • ‘Now I Know What Freedom Is’: One Young Man’s Escape From North Korea

    ‘Now I Know What Freedom Is’: One Young Man’s Escape From North Korea0

    Observers first see Ilhyeok Kim’s joyful, room-lighting smile before they notice he is relatively short—because he is North Korean defector short.  “For me, freedom means that when I want to do something, I’ll do it, and if I don’t want to do something, I don’t have to do it,” Kim told The Daily Signal last

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  • Why Do Teachers Make Us Read Old Books?

    Why Do Teachers Make Us Read Old Books?0

    There are probably as many reasons to read old stories as there are teachers. Old stories are sometimes strange. They display beliefs, values and ways of life that the reader may not recognize. As an English professor, I believe that there is value in reading stories from decades or even centuries ago. Teachers have their

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  • The Origins of the Thought Police – and Why They Scare Us

    The Origins of the Thought Police – and Why They Scare Us0

    There are a lot of unpleasant things in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. Spying screens. Torture and propaganda. Victory Gin and Victory Coffee always sounded particularly dreadful. And there is Winston Smith’s varicose ulcer, apparently a symbol of his humanity (or something), which always seems to be “throbbing.” Gross. None of this sounds very enjoyable,

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  • Rolling Stone: Men Who Abstain From Porn Are Dangerous Alt-Righters

    Rolling Stone: Men Who Abstain From Porn Are Dangerous Alt-Righters0

    There’s a scene in The Big Lebowski in which The Dude bitterly objects that the pornographer Jackie Treehorn, viewed by the local sheriff as an upstanding citizen who “draws a lot of water” in Malibu, “treats objects like women, man.” Lazy, inarticulate stoner though The Dude may be, even he understands that porn is a shady business and that

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  • Painting Tinseltown Red

    Painting Tinseltown Red0

    “Guerilla street artist” and “Republican” are two identities not often associated with one another. Yet arguably the most subversive street artist today claims both of those labels while operating in the belly of cultural Marxism, the City of Angels. Just last week, the citizens of Los Angeles awoke to find these posters plastered on bus

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  • Lost Innocence: Let’s Give Children a Childhood

    Lost Innocence: Let’s Give Children a Childhood3

    Back when I used to own a bookstore in Waynesville, North Carolina, a grandmother with two adolescent grandchildren visited our shop. The kids were soon sitting on the floor, absorbed in books, and the grandmother engaged me in conversation, telling me, as so many grandparents did, how much they loved reading. Then she said, “I

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  • The Return of the Native

    The Return of the Native0

    The essential error of the modernist theologians who pushed their agenda at the Amazonian synod is that they have fallen for the myth of the noble savage. But both the noble savage and the urban savage are simplistic generalities: They express a truth and a lie at the same time. The recent Amazonian synod in

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