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  • New Reuters Poll Proves That Many Americans Can’t Think for Themselves

    New Reuters Poll Proves That Many Americans Can’t Think for Themselves0

    It is generally believed that America is more polarized than ever. After all, one need only look at the fallout from the last election to test this theory: both liberals and conservatives are convinced that their ideas and principles are the best and should be followed. But a recent survey by Reuters casts a bit

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  • Mohammed Cartoon Publisher: The Definition of Tolerance has Changed

    Mohammed Cartoon Publisher: The Definition of Tolerance has Changed0

    A little more than a decade ago, Europe erupted over several cartoon drawings of the prophet Mohammed published in a Danish newspaper. For the man at the heart of the controversy, newspaper publisher Flemming Rose, the experience was an unpleasant one whose repercussions have continued to this day. In a recent interview for Reason Magazine,

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  • LA Times Editorial Board: Dear Colleges, Stop Squeezing Free Speech

    LA Times Editorial Board: Dear Colleges, Stop Squeezing Free Speech0

    A couple of weeks ago, my colleague Annie Holmquist wrote about Kevin Shaw, a student at California’s Pierce College, whom college officials threatened to kick off campus because he was handing out copies of the U.S. Constitution to interested students. Considering all the things happening on college campuses these days, cracking down on students offering

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  • Here’s to All the Men Who Help Women Reach the Finish Line

    Here’s to All the Men Who Help Women Reach the Finish Line0

    For all the downsides of social media, an upside is its ability to draw attention to otherwise overlooked stories of personal triumph and human kindness. You may very well have already seen this video of three runners participating in the “Love Run” half marathon in Philadelphia who stopped to help an exhausted woman cross the

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  • Claremont McKenna College Says Students Who Disrupted Heather Mac Donald Speech May Face Repercussions

    Claremont McKenna College Says Students Who Disrupted Heather Mac Donald Speech May Face Repercussions0

    Claremont McKenna College officials have announced possible repercussions for students who protested a conservative speaker’s speech last week. Protesters successfully blocked students and professors from entering an on-campus building to hear Heather Mac Donald’s pro-police speech, as reported by The Daily Signal last Friday. Mac Donald is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think

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  • Boys Don’t Need Books That ‘Put Them in Touch with Their Feelings’

    Boys Don’t Need Books That ‘Put Them in Touch with Their Feelings’0

    If you listen to cultural authorities on the question of why boys aren’t readings books, you will quickly discover the problem: the politically correct experts themselves and the Children’s Literature/Industrial Complex with which they are allied. Boys, they proclaim, need books that put them in touch with their feelings. Robert Lipsyte, writing in The New York

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  • Are Rights Anything More Than Legal Conventions?

    Are Rights Anything More Than Legal Conventions?0

    We live in an age of human rights. The language of human rights has become ubiquitous, a lingua franca used for expressing the most basic demands of justice. Some are old demands, such as the prohibition of torture and slavery. Others are newer, such as claims to internet access or same-sex marriage. But what are

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  • The 21-Year Drinking Age is Dumb and Should be Repealed

    The 21-Year Drinking Age is Dumb and Should be Repealed0

    The national discussion on prohibition has centered almost exclusively on pot, and whether states will or should be allowed to proceed with legalization. Largely forgotten is federal legislation that incentivizes states to make it illegal for young adults—those aged 18, 19, and 20—to drink alcohol.   The U.S. has one of the most stringent drinking

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  • Techniques of 19th-century fake news reporter teach us why we are suckers for it

    Techniques of 19th-century fake news reporter teach us why we are suckers for it0

    Donald Trump appears to have a straightforward definition of fake news: Stories that are critical of him or his presidency are “fake,” while those that praise him are “real.” On the surface, the logic doesn’t hold up. But at the same time, the way Trump thinks about fake news points to a key reason why

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