In Defense of Libertarian Brutalism
“[L]ibertarians can generally be divided into two camps: humanitarians and brutalists.” That’s Jeffrey A. Tucker’s provocative proposition in a widely discussed new article in The ...
“[L]ibertarians can generally be divided into two camps: humanitarians and brutalists.” That’s Jeffrey A. Tucker’s provocative proposition in a widely discussed new article in The ...
I"ve been called a fascist roughly six million times, and though I feel it's an inaccurate description of my beliefs and temperament, I can see how people might get that impression. Following WWII, the term ...
It's official. On Sunday, March 9th, 2014, political correctness breathed its last breath. It had been careening out of control since trannies took over the controls, but the moment that Beyoncé starred in a PSA to ...
Of all the millions of ways to be an asshole, the status quo regards "racism" as the most alarming. Put on your X-ray specs and you’ll see the contagion everywhere. According to a recent study, 10,000 "racist ...
Coming up as I did a Southern boy, usually barefoot, lots of times with a cane pole and a string of bream I caught in Machodoc Creek, and other signs of higher civilization, I believe I could get tired of Northerners huffing ...
Since the 1960s we have spent trillions to uplift the bottom. All nostrums, whether liberal or conservative, free market or statist, have failed and there is nothing on the agenda that offers any hope. The latest, President ...
In just under 200 days, Scottish voters will face a referendum on whether or not to leave the United Kingdom. The milestone was marked by ongoing arguments about whether an independent Scotland would be able to join the ...
This year is the centenary of the late great pop mathematician Martin Gardner (1914-2010). A posthumous autobiography (you don’t see that phrase often) appeared last fall. In 1957, Gardner published a book titled Fads ...
As the Academy prepares to celebrate some of the most historically inaccurate dramatizations in recent memory, let us turn from a year of “Based on a True Story” films to a review of 2013’s more substantive ...
The most recent moment of defining culture for the DC metropolis wasn"t the finagling over the nation's debt ceiling or the tug of war over restoring funding to military pensions. It was the premiere of a television show. ...
"The book that people are reading now," according to Lion of the Blogosophere, is Brynjolfsson and McAfee’s The Second Machine Age. I hastened to buy a copy and read it...so you don’t have to! The authors ...
Similarities and differences between Russian and American conservatism"especially in regard to the topic of the moment, Ukraine"can be observed in the thought of Russian geopolitical theorist Aleksandr Dugin, director ...
In the movie business, conventional wisdom has it that to succeed at the box office a film must include profanity, obscenity, blood, gore, blasphemy, and, of course, lots of sex. There’s only one little problem with this ...
Britannia, we proudly and rather wistfully proclaim, rules the waves. Over the last couple of weeks, however, it has seemed that the waves are ruling Britannia. Reading the UK newspaper headlines or watching the news, one ...