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    • Triggered: An Experiment

      Triggered: An Experiment0

      “When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.” Tonight, for no reason in particular, that line drifted up from the rubbish pit of my brain, that junk yard containing such bits and pieces of poetry learned in elementary school, admonitions from my mother, swimming pool songs from high school, and old Mustang

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    • ‘Now I Know What Freedom Is’: One Young Man’s Escape From North Korea

      ‘Now I Know What Freedom Is’: One Young Man’s Escape From North Korea0

      Observers first see Ilhyeok Kim’s joyful, room-lighting smile before they notice he is relatively short—because he is North Korean defector short.  “For me, freedom means that when I want to do something, I’ll do it, and if I don’t want to do something, I don’t have to do it,” Kim told The Daily Signal last

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    • How Many People Must Die to Fix the Planet?

      How Many People Must Die to Fix the Planet?0

      On the 40th anniversary of the first world climate conference in 1979, the journal Bioscience published the ominously titled “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency.” “Scientists,” the Warning begins, “have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to ‘tell it like it is.’ On the basis of this obligation…we declare, with

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