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. Generally,…
On June 22, 2010, Michael Hastings published in Rolling Stone magazine an essay entitled “The Runaway General,” a profile of General Stanley McChrystal and his leadership of American troops in Afghanistan. The next day President Obama held a…
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. In some ways it’s a predictable…
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…
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. Accordingly, the world learned that…
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…
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…
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. Moving…
A leaked membership list from the secretive Bohemian Grove has stirred public interest. It originated from independent journalist Daniel Boguslaw, who obtained a 2023 attendance roster through persistent outreach to a Bay Area club member.…
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…
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