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New York City Ideologues Get Indigestion Over Chick-fil-A0
- Culture
- April 18, 2018
America’s fastest-growing food chain has come to New York City. But as Hunter Baker notes in this week’s Acton Commentary, the “company’s success sticks in the craw of some who find it to be an alien presence due to the Christianity of the family who owns the company and their traditional values.” A recent New Yorker piece refers
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Near-Bankrupt Illinois Aims to Deflate ‘Golden Parachute’ Payouts for Public Officials0
- Economics
- April 18, 2018
In Illinois, neither scandal nor misconduct have sufficed to keep some government officials from receiving lavish severance payouts. One proposal in the General Assembly, however, aims to relieve taxpayers of this obligation. Senate Bill 3604, filed April 10 by state Sen. Tom Cullerton, D-Villa Park, would limit government workers’ ability to collect extravagant severance packages,
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Law Students Protest Free Speech Speaker with Shouts of ‘F-ck The Law,’ Call First Amendment ‘a Weak Shield for White Supremacy’0
- Culture
- April 17, 2018
Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, offers up yet another example of the collapse of free speech on university campuses. Via The Federalist: “The latest ‘non-platforming’ of a speaker at a purported academic institution happened to my good friend and sometime co-author Josh Blackman at City University of New York
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Homeschooling Freedoms Are Under Threat. Will Parents Defend Them?0
- Education
- April 17, 2018
Homeschoolers today have it easy. Many of us were in diapers when, in 1977, educator John Holt created Growing Without Schooling, the first newsletter to connect and encourage homeschooling families. Holt and other social reformers provided the support and facilitated the networks that would ultimately lead to homeschooling becoming legally recognized in all U.S. states
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Andrew Sullivan: Privilege Is Beginning to Trump Reason in Our Culture0
- Culture
- April 17, 2018
Super-blogger Andrew Sullivan wrote about a recent podcast that reveals a growing fissure between two schools of modern thought that could have far-reaching implications. The discussion involved atheist author Sam Harris and Ezra Klein of Vox, two well-respected progressive thinkers, and began with genetics. Sullivan offers an overview: “Klein doesn’t believe you can discuss
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Andrew McCabe Lied. So Will the FBI Apply the Same Rules Against Him That It Applies to All of Us?0
- Politics
- April 17, 2018
It’s official: Andrew McCabe lied. The new report from the Justice Department inspector general concludes that McCabe, the former FBI deputy director, lied to then-FBI Director James Comey, to other FBI agents, and to officials of the Office of the Inspector General. Some of those lies came when McCabe was under oath. What did he
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4 Steps to Ensure Children Become Well-Adjusted Adults0
- Culture
- April 17, 2018
I recently had a chance meeting with the father of a childhood acquaintance. Upon realizing who he was, I mentioned that I used to hang out with his daughter a bit. He laughed and replied, “She probably wasn’t the best influence on you.” I gave a polite chuckle in response, and we soon parted ways.
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This Brazilian Economist Once Marched for Socialism, But Became a Free-Market Hero0
- Culture
- April 16, 2018
If he were still alive, Roberto Campos would turn 101 next week on April 17. He was a Brazilian hero whose timeless ideas are still shining a light in the darkness. A common complaint in my country, Brazil, is that our heroes are not given due recognition or that their achievements are only realized and
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The Zuckerberg Hearings Prove Government Shouldn’t Regulate Facebook0
- April 16, 2018
In the year 2018, at the height of the Russia Scare, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was hauled in front of a tribunal of tech-illiterate politicians and asked to explain himself. “It was my mistake, and I’m sorry,” Zuckerberg told senators who are upset about the company’s exploitation (and fumbling) of user data—which, unbeknownst to them,
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