Blog Small Slider

Presidents May Want a Line-Item Veto, but Citizens May Not 0
- Politics
- January 18, 2024
What if there were some political tool that many US Presidents (going back to Grant, and all of them, including both leading major-party candidates this year) at least since Nixon, have wanted? What if they also agreed with Nixon that the result would be reduced political pork? Would such bipartisan agreement mean that the tool
READ MORE
How Quitting a Book Can Be Great for Reading 11
- Literature
- January 17, 2024
I’ve written extensively about the value of reading good books, especially old ones, but I’ve never written about the need to quit books. Yet while there are many good reasons to read books that have stood the test of time, there’s also something to be said for putting a book down. As paradoxical as it
READ MORE
The Loss of the Sacred in American Culture 6
- Culture, Featured
- January 17, 2024
There’s a grim scene near the end of The Iliad in which the Greek hero Achilles, because of his rage and grief over the death of his comrade Patroclus at the hands of the Trojan prince Hector, slays Hector in battle and drags his corpse behind his chariot, day after day, desecrating the body in
READ MORE

College Vaccine Mandates: Here to Stay?1
- Education, Health, Science
- January 17, 2024
It is January 2024, and Covid vaccine mandates persist at 70 of the top 800 colleges in the US, and who knows if they will ever let them go. If you are a healthcare major, nearly every clinical partner site still mandates that healthcare students take the most updated Covid vaccine (often no exemptions accepted) even
READ MORE
Murdering Meaning: The Verbicide of Contemporary America 9
- Culture
- January 16, 2024
In George Orwell’s 1984 are dichotomies now familiar to many Americans: “War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.” Inscribed on the outside of the white, pyramid-shaped Ministry of Truth, this is the motto of Oceania, a nation governed by “The Party.” The Party designed these slogans to obfuscate the meaning of words, thereby
READ MORE
With Canada Arresting Journalists, Freedom of the Press Is More Vital Than Ever 2
- International, Culture, Featured, Politics
- January 16, 2024
It was once unthinkable for nations like Canada to arrest journalists for asking questions. Not anymore. That’s precisely what happened last week when David Menzies of conservative news outlet Rebel News was accosted and handcuffed by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for approaching Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland with a microphone in
READ MORE