What Can ‘Hard Work U’ Teach the Elite Schools?
By Stephen Moore | “If I were an employer, I’d take our graduates over those at most any other schools,” says Mr. Davis. “The kids at these East Coast colleges strike me as being a little spoiled. Our graduates don’t expect to come into the company as the CEO.” But they certainly join a company knowing the value of work….
C.S. Lewis on the Gaining, Keeping, and Distributing of Power
By Michael Ward | The potential tyranny of big government is not the only constitutional danger facing Western democracies. In Norman Maclean’s fly fishing novella, A River Runs Through It, Maclean suggests (echoing some Native American traditions) that fishing isn’t merely an exercise in raw power, but a graceful recognition that you and the fish you seek to catch are…
Is Your Liberty as Secure as Your Books?
By D.C. Innes | I own books. Many books. They are the tools of my academic trade. But they are also the highways of my political and even spiritual liberty. Access to my books is like my access to air. Seizing my books would be worse than placing me under house arrest. If books are important to you—as they should be—and if you are transitioning over to electronic books, you should…
More Americans Will Have No Choice but to be Entrepreneurs
By James Pethokoukis | Entrepreneurial activity is down, but more of those starting businesses lately are doing so because they spy a market opportunity than because they just lost their job. According to the annual Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, the startup rate declined slightly from 0.32% of American adults per month starting businesses in 2011…
What Can Happen When False Narratives Fly?
By Barnabas Piper | DeSean Jackson is an explosive wide receiver known for big plays and blazing speed. Last season was the best of his career with the Philadelphia Eagles: He caught more than 80 passes for 1,300 yards and scored nine touchdowns. In this era of air-it-out football, Jackson is a coveted…
C.S. Lewis on Education Versus Vocational Training
C. S. Lewis sounds this warning in a 1939 essay recently collected and published in Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews By C. S. Lewis (page 22): Education is essentially for freemen and vocational training for slaves. That is how they were distributed in the old unequal societies; the poor man’s son was apprenticed to a trade, the rich man’s son went to Eton and…
Bigger is Not Necessarily Better in Information-Rich Digital Economy
By Irving Wladawsky-Berger | I recently read an intriguing column, The End of Mass Production, by technology author and columnist Kevin Maney. I first met Maney several years ago when he was at USA Today, and have always enjoyed his columns and books. The mass production of standardized products is…
What Would Tocqueville Say About #CancelColbert?
By Marjorie Romeyn-Sanabria | Suey Park, a 23-year-old self-professed activist known on Twitter for the hashtag #NotYourAsianSidekick, which provided Asian women a space to discuss and vent the limiting and often stereotyped perceptions of Asians in popular culture, took on a big fish last week with her latest…
Russia’s Approaching Demographic Time Bomb
By Patrick J. Buchanan | “World Population 2012″ projects the population growth, or decline, of every country and continent, between now and 2050. Most deeply involved in Crimea’s crisis are Russia and Ukraine. Yet, looking at the UN numbers, there seems an element of absurdity in this confrontation that…