You Can Call It a Garden Want to support all sorts of species for the good of people as well as the environment? In Wired magazine, there’s talk of rurbanization (also spelled rurbanisation). However it’s spelled, this is the process of bringing more of the country into the city. By making cities more rural, rurbanization […]
How Pat Buchanan Redefined the Right
You have read that Pat Buchanan, a founding pillar of the America First movement, has decided to retire from writing his long-running syndicated column. More than anyone else, Donald Trump channeled Pat Buchanan’s ideas in his successful 2016 run for the presidency. In Spectator World, Daniel McCarthy explains Buchanan’s continued relevance and the impact Buchanan […]
Big Hearted, Idealistic, Daring…
Today, reports James Freeman in the WSJ, a celebration is being held at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA. Ronald Reagan would have been 112. In 1984, Ronald Reagan easily won re-election. The Republican president won 49 states. January 1985 was harsh, and extremely cold temperatures at the Capital forced Reagan’s second inauguration […]
How to Broaden Your Thoughtfulness and Knowledge
If you want to broaden your thoughtfulness and knowledge base, begin your day with a dose of Tom Woods’ letter. He writes recently: If you’re like most people, the older you get the more set in your ways you become. You’re less likely to give things a radical rethinking. A noble exception to this general […]
The Man Who Tried to Prevent the Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster
In The Wall Street Journal, Rachel M. McCleary remembers the victims of the Challenger disaster and one man who attempted to prevent the disaster. She writes: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was preparing the space shuttle Challenger for launch on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986. It was an unusually cold morning for Cape […]
The Power of Words
When a Simple “I’m Sorry” Works Recently a WSJ writer lost both her parents. Megan Cox Gurdon, an author, is an only child who now finds herself an orphan in midlife. With her parents’ deaths, also gone are her childhood memories and “the remembered archives” of her parents’ marriage,” she mourns. Until my parents died, […]
How to Defeat the Evil of the State
At LewRockwell.com, Gary D. Barnett explains how, despite the failures of democratic, republican, and all other forms of government, humanity can defeat the evil of the state. He writes: When one actually thinks critically, and honestly examines the idea of governing, regardless of which form of totalitarian domination is the flavor of the day, one […]
Martin Luther King’s Leadership, Moral Imagination, Strategic Genius
“It is one of the enduring mysteries of American history—so near-providential as to give the most hardened atheist pause—that it should have produced, at every hinge point, great men who matched the moment,” begins Charles Krauthammer’s essay “Martin Luther King in Words and Stone” in Krauthhammer’s Things That Matter. A roiling, revolutionary 18th-century British colony […]
There’s a Lot of Ruin in a Great Nation
Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith, often considered as the founder of modern economics, meant that it would take a great deal of foolishness and ineptitude by leaders to take down a powerful, prosperous country. In a recent article, Victor Davis Hanson submits, are we sure there is still much ruin left in the United […]
OVER OPTIMISM: Can Tech Solve All the Problems?
In WIRED, Lauren Goode discusses the case of Sam Bankman-Fried and the collapse of FTX. She wonders why these things keep happening and comes to rest on the answer provided by Margaret O’Mara, a professor of history at the University of Washington, that people are too optimistic when it comes to technology. Goode writes: In […]
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