by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 16, 2019 | Culture, Education, Politics
The interruption of a stand-up comic’s performance by event organizers at Columbia University late last year served, obviously, as a reminder that college campuses remain places of intolerance and hostility to anything resembling diversity of thought. Nimesh...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 12, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
America’s history can be viewed as a long and continuing stream of cultural shifts. Her inception itself was a radical departure from the widely-established forms of governance the colonists knew and lived under, towards one that was more egalitarian,...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Apr 7, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
Greater use of impeachment, to balance the President’s outsized power, is not necessarily a bad idea. Especially when contrasting the office’s scant accountability; with presidential precedents of causing havoc, with examples of incompetence, like the Iraq...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 25, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
There’s an aspect of human instinct that leads us to resist admission of error. Whether this is a feature or a flaw is a debate for another time and place, but we don’t have to weigh the merits of the behavior to recognize that it exists. It’s rooted...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 15, 2019 | Economics, Education, Politics, Taxation
The great thinker Milton Friedman, in a seminal interview with Phil Donahue, exposed one of the great, under-addressed flaws in the premise of socialism and its other central-planning variants: the fact that the people in charge are no different than the people they...
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