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May 2024

May 27, 2024

Memorial Day Miscellany, 5/27/24

On this memorial day, we consider: competing to get into the military; indignation at the...

May 02, 2024

Abortion Supply and Demand

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, the number of abortions in the United...

April 2024

April 26, 2024

DISCUSS: Our Approach to Foreign Policy

The U.S. has pursued a "rules-based international order," with treaties and organizations that promote mutual...

April 15, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 4/15/24

Second jobs; women as closet conservatives; and why does it take so long to build...

April 12, 2024

“White Rural Rage”

A new book entitled "White Rural Rage" calls rural Americans the biggest threat to democracy,...

April 05, 2024

DISCUSSION: Grey Rhinos

We have "the elephant in the room" and "black swan events." To that menagerie Michele...

April 03, 2024

Regulating Everything in the Name of “Health”

We all want good health. Improving people's health is surely a worthy goal. There is...

March 2024

March 21, 2024

Technofeudalism

Capitalism is dead. And technology has killed it. What is taking its place is a...

March 11, 2024

Monday Miscellany 3/11/24

Another bad idea from France, Colorado's DNA scandal, and world hunger gives way to world...

February 2024

February 27, 2024

Becoming Like Medieval Peasants

A writer suggests that we adopt the medieval peasant mindset--not worrying about politics or keeping...

February 19, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 2/19/24

Tooth Fairy inflation, saving the climate by polluting the earth, and Iran claims Antarctica.

February 06, 2024

The Rich Are Different from You and Me

A Rasmussen poll surveyed America's "elite," constituting 1% of the population, and compared their views...

January 2024

January 29, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 2/29/24

The primaries are over just as they have begun. No cash accepted. And are the...

January 18, 2024

The Will of a Party vs. The Will of the Nation

As the election year gets under way, all agree that American politics is highly polarized. ...

January 12, 2024

“Preference Falsification” and Woke Ideology

Social pressure often makes people pretend to believe and desire things, when actually they don't. ...

December 2023

December 18, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 12/18/23

The military stalemate in Ukraine, the Government's plan to seize patents, and locking out teachers who...

December 11, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 12/11/23

A third war with U.S. involvement is brewing in South America; a radical new way...

November 2023

November 28, 2023

A World Without Work?

Elon Musk says that Artificial Intelligence plus advanced robotics will eliminate the need for people...

November 13, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 11/13/23

World population tops 8 billion, but not because of births; why the wealth tax won't...

October 2023

October 23, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 10/23/23

DeSantis evacuates Americans, Sweden is overrun with gang violence, and President Biden sells off half...

October 03, 2023

Taking Trump’s Business

Donald Trump is facing numerous criminal indictments, but the most personally devastating may be the...

September 2023

September 22, 2023

The Problems Reagan Dealt With Are Back

The New Right has been mocking "zombie Reaganism" and the limited government, free market, individual...

August 2023

August 29, 2023

Oliver Anthony’s Critics from the Left, the Right, and the Religious

"Rich Men North of Richmond" by Oliver Anthony is a cry of the heart from...

August 28, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 8/28/23

Conservatives' pop culture moment, the courts keep supporting religious liberty, and Republican big spenders.

August 14, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 8/14/23

Successes in combating porn, voters in red states still want abortion, and U. S. bonds...

August 10, 2023

Meritocracy? What Meritocracy?

David Brooks takes to task his fellow Ivy League-educated professionals who have formed a new...

August 09, 2023

Elite Self-Knowledge

David Brooks has created a stir with a NYT column entitled "What If We're the...

August 08, 2023

And Now, “Freedom Conservatism”

We've blogged about "National Conservativism" and its manifesto. Now the other kind of conservatism, the...

August 04, 2023

DISCUSSION: Artificial Intelligence & the Free Market

A pundit has said, "If AI can produce series, movies, or political-economy-related op-eds more cheaply...

August 01, 2023

Child Credit Proposal Would Include the Unborn

The Providing for Life Act would greatly expand the COVID-era child tax credit into a...