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Slavery is Still With Us, and It’s More Widespread and Profitable than Ever0
- Culture
- August 17, 2017
A few years ago I went to a lecture by the Right Honourable The Baroness Cox, of Queensbury. She spoke about her charitable work in many of the most dangerous areas of the world and in particular about the redeeming of slaves in Sudan. What struck me at the time was her comment that not only
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Should Students Be on a First-Name Basis with Their Professors?0
- Education
- August 17, 2017
As the new school year quickly approaches, college freshmen will soon learn the proper way to address their new instructors. No longer are the go-to titles of “Mr.” and “Ms.” commonly used like they are for K-12 teachers; rather, “Professor,” “Doctor,” and first names are thrown in. The pertinent question today asks whether it’s okay
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Kentucky Mayor Issues Open Invitation to Racists Everywhere0
- Politics
- August 17, 2017
Okay, so the last time someone took down a Confederate monument, hundreds of racists showed up and precipitated a violent clash with anti-racist demonstrators, some of whom unwisely brought weapons themselves. The result was someone dying. So you’re the major of an arguably Southern town—Lexington, in my home state of Kentucky—and what do you do? You
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If You’re Going to Confront Fascists, Do it Jeffrey Tucker-Style (Video)0
- Culture
- August 17, 2017
If nothing else, the last week has taught the West how not to respond to white nationalism. The “Unite the Right” conference in Charlottesville touched off rounds of violence that culminated with a white supremacist, 20-year-old James Fields Jr., allegedly driving a car into a crowd and killing Heather Heyer, 32. Attorney General Jeff Sessions
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Five Ways the Charlottesville Marches Backfired0
- Culture
- August 17, 2017
It’s a rule of social and political movements that they cannot fully control the outcome of their efforts. Actions cause reactions, many of them unanticipated and certainly unintended. This is because no group, no matter how powerful, can control the human minds of others not part of their cause. This is why so many movements
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Eliminating Down Syndrome Children Is Not Something to Be Proud Of0
- Culture
- August 17, 2017
This week, the CBS News program “On Assignment” included a long feature on what it described as the near eradication of Down syndrome in Iceland. As the story unfolded, viewers learned of the impact of genetic screening and abortion on a countrywide scale. On that tiny island, known to people mostly for its geothermal pools
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Author: We’re Now Living in an ‘Age of Anger’0
- Philosophy
- August 17, 2017
According to the title of Pankaj Mishra’s latest book, we are now living in an “Age of Anger.” He writes: “[T]he current conflagration [in the world] has brought to the surface what Friedrich Nietzsche called ‘ressentiment’—‘a whole tremulous realm of subterranean revenge, inexhaustible and insatiable in outbursts… what Hannah Arendt described as a ‘tremendous increase
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Why the Purge of Historic Monuments Is a Bad Idea0
- Culture
- August 16, 2017
On the streets of New Orleans sits a statue of Franklin Roosevelt. As one of the most prominent Presidents of the United States, his posture is proud and sure, matching how he is commonly portrayed in historical narratives. His eyes contain quintessential confidence and optimism. Outside of his repute as “FDR” or “Houdini in the
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Why Economic Education Is Essential for Young Americans0
- Economics
- August 16, 2017
In order to fulfill the requirements of my undergraduate program, I had to complete six credits in economics. Sitting in my “intro to microeconomics” class, I slowly began dying inside after being faced with slide after slide of supply and demand curves and textbook problem sets that seemed to always involve the avocado market for
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