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Net Neutrality Isn’t Neutral At All 0
- Politics
- December 18, 2017
Net neutrality has been getting so many “hot takes” lately, it almost makes you wish someone would be non-neutral about this content and block it. These have come during the run-up to today’s Federal Communications Commission vote, which will likely reverse the Commission’s June 2015 reclassification of internet service providers as Title II (of the
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Why Canada Pulled a BBC Documentary on Transgender Kids 0
- Culture
- December 18, 2017
Towards the end of 2017, Lindsay Shepherd, a teacher’s assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, got into big trouble for showing her class a debate featuring Jordan Peterson on the issue of gender pronouns. As Shepherd would later note, the clip she showed was originally featured on public television, a fact which led her
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Rethinking the Burning Question of Cremation 0
- Culture
- December 15, 2017
It has been pointed out that death is now the taboo which sex once was. While having become numb to the latter, to the former we have become utterly prudish. The increasingly widespread practice of cremating the dead is good evidence in favour of this thesis. Our acceptance of cremation reveals that we no longer
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What the Founders Understood About Religious Freedom That We Must Recover 0
- History
- December 15, 2017
Friday, Dec. 15, marks the anniversary of the day our young nation ratified the Bill of Rights in 1791. Given the national discussion in recent days over whether the government may compel speech from an ordinary baker, now is an especially good time to consider the very first words of our charter document: “Congress shall
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Was John Wayne’s Masculine Image a Lie?0
- History
- December 15, 2017
There is perhaps no manlier icon in Hollywood history than John Wayne. More than 40 years after his last film, he remains the cinematic apotheosis of the rugged, principled, red-blooded, tough-as-nails, frontier-conquering, patriotic American male. Not even Steve McQueen or Clint Eastwood can measure up to The Duke. But was Wayne’s masculine image a sham,
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Do You Know the Bill of Rights? Not Many Do.0
- Culture
- December 15, 2017
Want to brush up on your knowledge of the Bill of Rights? Check out the full text here! — Dear Readers, Big Tech is suppressing our reach, refusing to let us advertise and squelching our ability to serve up a steady diet of truth and ideas. Help us fight back by becoming a member for just
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