Blog 3 Columns

How to Make the Thrill of Love Return in Marriage 0
- Culture
- August 28, 2019
Social media causes a lot of problems. We all use it. Yet we all love to hate it. Now it’s causing yet another unforeseen problem, The Wall Street Journal reports, namely in the realm of divorce. We’ve all seen a couple’s blossoming love in images shared on social media. But wait a few years, add
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Why I No Longer Support Government Run Healthcare 0
- Politics
- August 27, 2019
In my medical training, a fellow physician tried to convince me that my liberal leanings on health care were misguided. While I firmly believed that the government had an important role in providing access to medical care – particularly to the underserved – my colleague argued that the government’s role in, well, anything, should be practically nonexistent. I remained
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Why America Shouldn’t Be Too Concerned About Venezuela 0
- International
- August 27, 2019
Perhaps Karl Marx’s greatest (and most quoted) aphorism is: “History repeats itself; once as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Nowhere is the truth of that clearer than in the case of Venezuela. When the late Hugo Chavez was elected to the presidency there in 1998, everybody in Washington imagined that this was a replay
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What Happened to the Epstein Story?0
- Culture
- August 27, 2019
International man of mystery and all-around dirtbag, Jeffrey Epstein, died just over two weeks ago at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a high-security federal detention center that rivals Guantanamo Bay in its unpleasantness. The institution that safely housed infamous criminals like El Chapo and various members of al-Qaeda barely held on to Jeffrey Epstein for a
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Trump: Somebody Had to Confront China 0
- Economics
- August 27, 2019
Let’s pay a visit to Little China in Front Royal, Virginia. I’m not talking about China City Buffet, that wonderful restaurant where I used to take my grandkids for their birthdays. Nor do I mean the nearby Virginia International Academy, which despite its name caters only to Chinese students transitioning into American universities. I do
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The Difference Between Classical and Traditional Education 5
- Culture
- August 27, 2019
Several years ago I got into a conversation about classical education in which my conversation partner asked, “Isn’t that the kind of education that all those overachieving homeschoolers are into?” I had to laugh. Yes, classical education has that reputation. But the high-achieving nature of classical education hasn’t deterred interest. In fact, classical curricula are proliferating
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The Horrors of Modern Public Opinion 0
- History
- August 26, 2019
In a previous essay at The Imaginative Conservative, I looked at Christopher Dawson’s critical fear that the United States and the United Kingdom had become fascistic in their respective quests to fight fascism. Dawson, of course, was not alone in expressing such a belief. C.S. Lewis had claimed the same in his profound essay, Abolition of Man (1943), and his
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Self-Esteem: Not the Virtue We Think It Is 0
- Culture
- August 26, 2019
Can you name the seven traditional cardinal virtues? Author G.K. Chesterton makes it easy, dividing the seven into “pagan” and “Christian” virtues. Among the former were prudence, courage, temperance, and justice. Among the latter were faith, hope, and charity. Humility apparently didn’t make the cut. Was it worth defending? Chesterton certainly thought so. But since
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Kids Ordered to Pay Sales Tax at Children’s Expo Receive a Sad Lesson in Entrepreneurship 0
- Economics
- August 26, 2019
Twelve-year-old Lucie Wise couldn’t wait to open her own business. On three separate occasions, she had accompanied her mother to the Children’s Entrepreneur Market – an expo of child-run businesses hosted annually by the Utah nonprofit Libertas Institute – dreaming of the day she could set up her own booth and sell her wares to curious passersby.
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How to Make the Thrill of Love Return in Marriage 0