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  • Why Do People Mostly Stop Learning After College?

    Why Do People Mostly Stop Learning After College?7

    Why is it that, upon finishing college and entering the workforce, the vast majority of people seem to just stop learning? Is education a period of your life to be gotten over with, a burden that, once borne, is to be set aside for better things? This certainly seems to be the way we think

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  • Are We Living Through an Authority Crisis?

    Are We Living Through an Authority Crisis?6

    The American government has become incredibly powerful, but it’s lost much of its authority. That’s a serious problem: The difference between power and authority is the difference between tyranny and law, mob rule and republicanism, oligarchy and statesmanship. When the dividing line between the two break down, chaos results. For years, Americans have viewed both

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  • A Children’s Book We Can All Learn From: ‘Farmhouse’ by Sophie Blackall

    A Children’s Book We Can All Learn From: ‘Farmhouse’ by Sophie Blackall1

    The old farmhouse that my wife grew up in has been in her family since the Civil War. It’s seeped in memories and nostalgia as generations of large families have been raised there, making it the witness of the countless joys, sorrows, failures, and achievements that go along with growing up. When we visit there,

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  • The Politics of Stephen King’s Fiction

    The Politics of Stephen King’s Fiction6

    Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of Stephen King, and I came to wonder about the horror writer’s political ideas. Several right-leaning essayists have already noticed a seeming disconnect between King’s politics and the spirit of his fiction. Tim Cavanaugh labels King a “lefty,” yet notes that his stories are full of “hard-headed pragmatism and

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  • Why Karl Marx Hated Jews

    Why Karl Marx Hated Jews1

    Let us be wary of the soothing narrative that downplays the seriousness of growing antisemitism. The belief that Jew hate will diminish once the Israel-Hamas war concludes may be misguided. As I go about my daily life, antisemitism is still a thing of the past. Not so on college campuses and in some cities. Like Elon

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  • Has Hollywood Killed Originality?

    Has Hollywood Killed Originality?7

    In bygone days, Hollywood was a bastion of original storytelling and imagination. The industry produced new tales that inspired us and transported us into another realm. But those days are long over, and we, the audience, have no choice but to endure the production of stale remakes and banal retellings of old narratives. Hollywood production

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