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April 01, 2026

Is No One Good but God?

If your dog and a stranger were both drowning, who would you save first? Nationally renowned radio host and bestselling author Dennis Prager often poses this question to his audiences, and he typically gets a pretty depressing answer. Continue Reading...
March 26, 2026

The Wealth Tax Must Die

The wealth tax is the ultimate zombie policy: It’s been tried, tested, and rejected across Europe, yet it has returned to the United States with renewed fervor, driven by the politics of envy disguised as justice. Continue Reading...
March 25, 2026

Harvey Mansfield’s Rational Control

It’s difficult to avoid terms such as “legendary” and “distinguished” when referring to Harvey Mansfield’s long career at Harvard University. Of course, his reputation is based on more than his famous resistance to grade inflation or his barbed criticisms of Harvard. Continue Reading...
March 23, 2026

Chuck Norris Doesn’t Cheat Death

Chuck Norris has died at age 86, something considered impossible in the digital age, which includes “Chuck Norris Facts,” a litany of impossibilities that prove Norris is the greatest at almost everything. Continue Reading...
March 19, 2026

Seeking God at the End of the World

Is the end of the world drawing nigh? This is the question at the heart of Christopher Beha’s 2020 blockbuster novel, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts. A deranged-looking street preacher appears at the beginning of the novel, predicting the end times, setting a concrete date to the end of it all. Continue Reading...
March 18, 2026

Just War Theory Yesterday and Today

For an ancient people, the Romans were atypical in their concern about the moral justification of their wars. Conquest, they believed, was at least potentially nefas (“wicked”) and risked the community’s suffering religious pollution and divine disapprobation. Continue Reading...
March 17, 2026

What Exactly Are the ‘Common Goods’?

At some point in their economics curriculum, every undergraduate will learn the “guns and butter” model of trade. The idea is simple: Countries have limited resources and can devote them either to military production or to consumer goods. Continue Reading...
March 12, 2026

How Frankenstein and The Bride! Make the Battle of the Sexes Worse

Adapting Merry Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein is practically a tradition in Hollywood. As is the freedom in adapting it: Consider the Universal Monsters’ classic, which turned the original’s well-spoken creation of mad scientist Victor Frankenstein into a grunting monster with neck bolts, to making of him a comedic figure (Young Frankenstein) to transforming the whole tale into a cheesy supernatural action flick (I, Frankenstein). Continue Reading...