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  • Hillary’s Economically Clueless Plans Will Create More Poverty

    Hillary’s Economically Clueless Plans Will Create More Poverty0

    Because of my disdain for the two statists that were nominated by the Republicans and Democrats, I’m trying to ignore the election. But every so often, something gets said or written that cries out for analysis. Today is one of those days. Hillary Clinton has an editorial in the New York Times entitled “My Plan

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  • 3 Reasons to Embrace the Single Life

    3 Reasons to Embrace the Single Life0

    For whatever reason, being single often comes with a stigma. A stigma that you’re somehow unfit for a partner. That’s kind of a cop-out, don’t you think? Why is it that everyone is so concerned with whether or not we have a partner? Of course, relationships can be beautiful, incredible things, but being single can be just as incredible.

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  • Three Cheers for the Industrial Revolution–and the Fossil Fuels that Drove it

    Three Cheers for the Industrial Revolution–and the Fossil Fuels that Drove it0

    In an article for CapX last week, I discussed Johan Norberg’s new book, Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future. As Norberg notes, over the last two centuries, humanity has made massive improvements in terms of nutrition, sanitation, life expectancy, poverty, violence, literacy, environmental quality, political freedom and child labor. Today, I want to discuss the role that

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  • Theologian: God Doesn’t Need Christians

    Theologian: God Doesn’t Need Christians0

    Last week I raised the question of whether or not the “feel good” approach to religion was leading to the steady decline of America’s churches. Such an approach attempts to bring hoards of people to church, making them comfortable in order to swell the ranks of those who follow God. Not surprisingly, a few readers

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  • Millennial Prof Diagnoses the Problem with His Generation

    Millennial Prof Diagnoses the Problem with His Generation0

    Five years ago I was dragged kicking and screaming into registering for a Facebook account for work purposes. Unlike many of my fellow millennials, I had successfully avoided social media, and I was happy with that status, thank-you-very-much. As it turns out, I was not the only millennial who bucked the trend. Dr. Cal Newport,

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  • Is Diversity the New Noblesse Oblige?

    Is Diversity the New Noblesse Oblige?0

    Noblesse Oblige [noh-bles oh-bleezh]: the inferred responsibility of privileged people to act with generosity and nobility toward those less privileged. I heard this term for the first time nearly 20 years ago during an undergraduate course I took on the French Revolution taught by Dr. Peter Dimeglio, one of the best (and toughest) instructors I ever

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  • Don’t Blame Lying on the Brain

    Don’t Blame Lying on the Brain0

    The recent finding that telling lies induces changes in the brain has stimulated a number of misrepresentations that may wreak more harm on our understanding than the lies on which they report. CNN’s headline runs, “Lying May Be Your Brain’s Fault, Honestly,” and PBS reports, “Telling a Lie Makes Way for the Brain to Keep

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  • Why Sasquatch and Other Crypto-Beasts Haunt our Minds

    Why Sasquatch and Other Crypto-Beasts Haunt our Minds0

    Since the 15th century, and possibly earlier, there have been accounts of hairy, nude and tremendously strong people living in the more obscure corners of the Caucasus. Called ‘Almas’, the creatures are occasionally shot, sometimes domesticated (and, in one case, wed). Across the sunbaked Eurasian steppe and high in the Himalayas, there is the white-furred

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  • Why Our Culture is So Fascinated by Monsters

    Why Our Culture is So Fascinated by Monsters0

    I have always wondered why our culture our culture is so fascinated by evil and darkness. When Dante appears on high school reading lists it is always in the form of his Inferno, but never his Purgatorio or Paradiso. One of the biggest educational publishers, Scholastic Books, is known primarily for Harry Potter and The

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