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  • AI: What It Means for Our Democracy

    AI: What It Means for Our Democracy7

    Artificial intelligence is a buzzword these days, captivating America’s imagination but also stirring fears. At the heart of our AI fascination lies this dilemma: Is AI a force for good, is it neutral, or is it evil? And how will AI impact our democracy? First, it must be acknowledged that there are indeed substantial benefits

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  • Is Islam Imperialist?

    Is Islam Imperialist?2

    English philosopher Antony Flew once commented that Islam was “best described in a Marxian way as the uniting and justifying ideology of Arab imperialism.” This is a rather provocative notion, but it’s not as implausible as it seems. Arab imperialism is a very real phenomenon. As James Sinkinson writes, “Arabs are the most successful colonizers

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  • What Happened to American Civics?

    What Happened to American Civics?2

    My son’s school assigned a civics project for summer vacation. The project’s scope is expansive and spans from explaining the history and functions of the three branches of government to creating a flip book of landmark Supreme Court cases like Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v Board of Education. One of the tasks is a minor level of

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  • Could the Olympics Die With the Baby Boomers?

    Could the Olympics Die With the Baby Boomers?4

    The pageantry of the Olympic Games are diverting attention from a question which must keep members of the International Olympic Committee awake at night: will the modern Games survive? “If we don’t get young people playing sport, we won’t be here for very much longer,” IOC spokesperson Mark Adams said at a press conference last week. “We have

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  • Adam Smith Thought This Was His Most Important Book

    Adam Smith Thought This Was His Most Important Book3

    Adam Smith is best known for writing The Wealth of Nations, but in a way, his work in economics took a back seat to his moral philosophy. In fact, Smith thought that his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, was more important than his economic theory. It’s in this book, for example, that Smith

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  • What Johnny Cash’s ‘Hurt’ Teaches Us About Aging and Fame

    What Johnny Cash’s ‘Hurt’ Teaches Us About Aging and Fame5

    In the 1980s, Johnny Cash, the former king of country, was increasingly marginalized and forgotten. After a series of failed albums, Columbia, his label of 25 years, dropped him. But his career was not quite over. Producer Rick Rubin saw Cash perform alongside Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden in 1992 and recognized that “the

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