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  • When Did Rome Really Fall?

    When Did Rome Really Fall?0

    The belief that America is in decline has led to many comparisons between our time and the fall of Rome. A current bestseller—The Benedict Option—makes the case that Christians today must recover and preserve Western tradition much like their predecessors did in the early centuries of the Middle Ages. The date most commonly referenced for

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  • What Caused the Collapse of Parental Authority?

    What Caused the Collapse of Parental Authority?2

    You’ve been there. You’re in the store, minding your own business when suddenly you hear the angry screams of a child, interspersed with: “Johnny, get up off the floor this instant! I mean it, Johnny! By the time I count to three… Johnny, mommy will give you a cookie when we get to the car

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  • Trump’s Tax Plan Is Brilliant Politics and Even Better Economics

    Trump’s Tax Plan Is Brilliant Politics and Even Better Economics0

    Donald Trump’s tax plan seems to mark a new chapter in his presidency, from floundering around with strange and sometimes scary policies (bombings, border closings, saber rattling) to focusing on what actually matters and what can actually make the difference for the American people and the American economy. Under Trump’s plan, taxes on corporate profits

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  • Joel Buchsbaum: The Legend Who Inspired the NFL Draft as We Know it Today

    Joel Buchsbaum: The Legend Who Inspired the NFL Draft as We Know it Today0

    Tonight, the second-most-popular televised football broadcast of the year takes place from New York’s Radio City Music Hall. ESPN will broadcast round one of the NFL Draft, with the remaining rounds to be broadcast on Friday and Saturday. An estimated 40 million people will watch the draft, an event that even for the most interested

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  • Here’s How Wrong Past Environmental Predictions Have Been

    Here’s How Wrong Past Environmental Predictions Have Been0

    Each year, Earth Day is accompanied by predictions of doom. Let’s take a look at past predictions to determine just how much confidence we can have in today’s environmentalists’ predictions. In 1970, when Earth Day was conceived, the late George Wald, a Nobel laureate biology professor at Harvard University, predicted, “Civilization will end within 15

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  • Heineken’s New Beer Commercial is Overtly Political—and Totally Awesome

    Heineken’s New Beer Commercial is Overtly Political—and Totally Awesome0

    color:#3C3C3C”>A few weeks ago, before I could catch myself, I said something about missing the “good old days” of beer commercials. color:#3C3C3C”>My comment stemmed from a commercial in which Matt Damon told me I should drink Stella Artois (which I already do) to save the planet. I found the suggestion condescending and a little aggravating.

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  • Education Used to Happen Outside of School

    Education Used to Happen Outside of School0

    Prior to passage of America’s first compulsory schooling statute, in Massachusetts in 1852, it was generally accepted that education was a broad societal good and that there could be many ways to be educated: at home, through one’s church, with a tutor, in a class, on your own as an autodidact, as an apprentice in

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  • Duke Professor’s 1991 Warning about Campus Chaos is Oddly Prophetic

    Duke Professor’s 1991 Warning about Campus Chaos is Oddly Prophetic0

    If one was to judge solely from headlines, it would appear that the only activities occurring on university campuses these days are riots and outrage. As professor Jonathan Haidt notes, it’s as if the university is possessed of a “tribal mind” which views “the demonization of inconvenient research and researchers” as its chief end. Haidt’s

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  • Are ‘Antifascists’ Employing a Crude Form of Terrorism?

    Are ‘Antifascists’ Employing a Crude Form of Terrorism?0

    Days before its April 29 parade, Organizers of the 82nd Avenue of Roses Parade in Portland received an anonymous message. Via the Oregonian: “You have seen how much power we have downtown and that the police cannot stop us from shutting down roads so please consider your decision wisely,” the anonymous email said, telling organizers they could

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