Should We Abolish All Prisons?
By John Stonestreet & Maria Baer | Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez successfully grabbed another headline last week by tweeting that Americans should have a “real conversation” about abolishing prisons. Though she did later walk back this bone-toss…
How We Colored Our Public Squares Red
By Anthony Esolen | Reports tell us that church attendance among Americans is falling. I am acquainted with secular professors who apparently have learned nothing from the experiences of atheistic social experiments in the last century. Social experiments, I say, and not societies, because such monstrosities as Soviet Russia…
Human Embryos are Human Beings
By Patrick Lee | In Human Embryos, Human Beings, A Scientific and Philosophical Approach philosopher Samuel Condic and Neurobiologist Maureen Condic advance a careful and detailed case for the proposition that a human being comes to be at fertilization, and refute the main arguments to the contrary. Along the way they clarify the concepts of…
What Lana Del Rey Doesn’t Get About Norman Rockwell
By Jason Morgan | During a layover on a recent trip, I was browsing the paperbacks and magazines at one of the outlandishly overpriced bodegas that one finds in any airport in America nowadays. Apart from the usual glut of faux-angsty pulp novels and historical romances, I noticed no fewer than three books that used the F-word—in the title. It seems we really have arrived…
A Shifting Border Policy
By Sophia Lee | In February 2018, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) quietly changed its mission statement, removing a description of the United States as “a nation of immigrants.” The change reflected a shift in our government’s philosophy regarding immigration from one of welcoming strangers…
Word War, World War
By Alan McLaughlin | To capitulate on pronouns is not an act of charity. It is rather the total surrender of the world, in a word. In today’s public communication climate, something as quotidian and unimpeachable as calling a girl “she” constitutes an invitation for legions of enforcers to descend in wrath upon the erring speaker. The sexual revolution’s assaults…
Odd Allies Are Coming Together to Defend Free Speech
By Kristen Waggoner | It’s amazing to see who comes to the defense of freedom when you least expect it. In July, 12 leading philosophy scholars from around the world signed on to a statement supporting freedom of thought and speech in academia, specifically as those freedoms are being undercut by gender identity ideology…
The Myth That Our Planet Faces an Overpopulation Crisis
By Barry Brownstein | The world is not in danger of being overpopulated, so why do so many insist it is? Shortly after my wife graduated from college, she joined Zero Population Growth. Looking back, she tells me it was an emotional reaction fueled by reading Paul Ehrlich’s apocalyptic claims. In his book, The Population Bomb…
Chasing the Roots of the Venezuelan Collapse
By Jorge Jraissati | In order to flourish economically, property rights must be secure and the rule of law must exist. A generation ago, Venezuela was the most advanced Latin American economy, with the largest oil reserves in the world, and with a bright future ahead. Today, it is in the deepest economic collapse in the modern history…