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Mass Shootings: Fallout From a Culture Where Anything Goes and Nothing Matters 0
- Culture
- August 6, 2019
My editor at Intellectual Takeout, Annie Holmquist, wrote to me the Monday after back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio to ask if I might write a column about these horrific murders. She and some of the staff were discussing the shootings and found themselves asking the following questions: Why are young
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When Nominalists Curl in the Squat Rack 0
- Culture
- August 5, 2019
A gentleman at my gym recently took it upon himself to perform sets of standing barbell curls in a squat rack. This type of disordered behavior really aggravates me. A colleague of mine playfully jested with this degenerate: “Hey man, why you curling in the squat rack? There should be laws against that!” I joined
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Why Baby Strikes Won’t Save the Planet 0
- Culture
- August 5, 2019
If you’re worried about climate change, you shouldn’t have children. Ever. That’s the new argument that many young Americans are buying into. The issue gained prominence in February when Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez raised it on Instagram, and it was back in the news earlier this month when pop singer Miley Cyrus suggested she wouldn’t be
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Prosecutors Treat El Paso Shooting as Domestic Terrorism 0
- Politics
- August 5, 2019
Federal prosecutors are treating the shooting in El Paso, Texas, which left 20 dead Saturday, as an act of domestic terrorism and possible hate crime that could carry the death penalty. “We’re also treating it as a domestic terrorism case, and we’re going to do what we do to terrorists in this country, which is
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Robots Ready to Scoop Ice Cream Jobs 0
- Culture
- August 5, 2019
California isn’t nicknamed Commiefornia for nothing. Decades of limited housing, water use restrictions, overzealous environmental regulations, and now a rapidly increasing minimum wage make it difficult for entrepreneurs. But despite it all, businesses are adapting, shifting investments away from personnel and toward automation. Robots, at an increasing pace, are serving customers, as fast-food joints and grocery stores adapt to
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Three Reasons Why Media Coverage May Be Contributing to Mass Shootings 0
- Culture
- August 5, 2019
If you are like me, you’ve probably followed the media coverage of the shootings in El Paso and Dayton quite closely. These massacres provide brutal reminders of the terrible impact of gun violence. Of course, media outlets constantly have something to say about this sort of crime, whether it be the initial report of
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