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What’s Next for Venezuela?0
- August 2, 2017
Yesterday’s fraudulent and illegitimate vote to install a constituent assembly in Venezuela is the definitive step towards consolidating a de jure dictatorship in that country. The constituent assembly will enjoy supra-constitutional powers, which means that its prerogatives go beyond writing a new constitution and include, inter alia, dissolving and removing all existing institutions—including those controlled by the opposition or held
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How Government Regulation Caused the Financial Crisis 0
- Economics
- August 2, 2017
Note: Last week I asked why conservative Christian outlets are increasingly promoting socialist ideas and policies. My friend Jake Meador weighed in to help provide some perspective on this trend. Jake himself is the editor of an online Christian magazine—Mere Orthodoxy—that would be described as traditionalist conservative. While he is not a socialist, he admits he
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Google Owes Jordan Peterson an Explanation 0
- Culture
- August 2, 2017
Via the Washington Times: “The University’s of Toronto’s Dr. Jordan B. Peterson turned to famous friends Tuesday after his YouTube account was locked “with no explanation.” The clinical psychologist who shot to fame in 2016 for opposition to Canada’s ‘C-16 bill’ — critics called him “transphobic” for his refusal to use genderless pronouns — said
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Basic Philosophy Educated People Should Know: Aristotle’s ‘Four Causes’0
- Philosophy
- August 2, 2017
The ancient philosophers developed a number of tools through which they could understand reality. One of them, from the writings of Aristotle, the student of Plato (who was himself the student of Socrates), is called the “Four Causes.” The term “cause” is a little misleading. These four causes were the way you explained or defined
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Why Kids Today Show Adults So Little Respect 1
- Culture
- August 2, 2017
In a recent article for The Washington Post, author Meredith Hale shares some rather humiliating experiences she recently endured at the hands of her daughter’s 8-year-old friends. The first was being ordered to eat an old, crusty fragment of bagel picked up from the floor. The second was being intentionally slapped in the rear. Hale
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The Moral Imagination of Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’0
- Culture
- August 2, 2017
Several nights ago, I reluctantly watched Disney’s 2017 live version of Beauty and the Beast. I must admit three things before I get into the heart of this essay. First, I’ve never been anti-Disney. I know many conservatives think Disney is the end of civilization, but I’ve never seen it that way. Like comic-book superheroes, Disney,
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