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Nat Hentoff Will Be Missed 0
- Economics
- January 12, 2017
Great human rights activists tend to know each other. Wednesday, Wesley J. Smith joined me on radio to talk about life, Nat Hentoff, and Wesley’s tribute in National Review Online last weekend. We have lost a great writer, civil libertarian, free speech absolutist, jazz historian, and pro-life advocate, Nat Hentoff, who died today at 91. As an
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Is Your Smartphone Making You Paranoid?0
- Culture
- January 12, 2017
Imagine you are visiting a new city and get lost on your way to that famous must-see museum. In times of yore – actually just about 10 years ago – you might have had to consult a friendly local to direct you. Today, with all the friendly locals still very much around you on the
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U.S. Judge: Administrators Turning Colleges into ‘Surveillance States’0
- Culture
- January 12, 2017
Early last year, the Higher Education Research Institute released their annual survey on the attitudes and ideas of college freshman. Not surprisingly, the survey mirrored events we’ve seen breaking out on campuses across the nation, namely, little tolerance for viewpoints differing from those of students. In fact, more than 70 percent of college freshmen in
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Chicago Native Explains Why He’s ‘Leaving and Never Coming Back’0
- Culture
- January 12, 2017
Brandon Vezmar grew up in Chicago. As a teen from Hammond, he’d escape to the city “every chance I could get,” he said. He later attended college there. But the last eight months have spoiled the city for Vezmar, he writes in an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune. The caustic combination of corrupt politicians with
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Americans are Charitable without the Government’s Help 0
- Culture
- January 12, 2017
By now, we’ve all heard of the little free libraries proliferating across America. In all likelihood, one has even popped up in your own neighborhood, driven by a love of reading and an eagerness to give unwanted materials a second life. But the little free library idea has spawned more than a love of reading.
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Gun Shop Creates World’s Best-Ever Receipt 0
- Economics
- January 12, 2017
I don’t often use the literary tactic of referring to something as the “best-ever.” Indeed, the only time that phrase appeared in the title of a column was back in 2014 when I smugly wrote about the collapse of government-run single-payer healthcare in Vermont. Recalling what Justice Brandeis wrote about states being the “laboratories of
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