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An Early American Libertarian Anarchist — Anne Hutchinson vs. The Theological Oligarchy

In Murray Rothbard's opinion, the early colonial controversialist Anne Hutchinson merits g...

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‘House’ Conclusion Satisfies Both Emotions and Intellect

For me the most interesting thing about the Fox TV series House, M.D., the final episode...

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I Lost on Jeopardy

I dedicate this post to Tom Friedman, one of the most pedestrian, overrated intellects o...

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“All Effect and No Cause”: Colliding Branes, Bouncing Universes, Promiscuous Singularities, and Fashionable Nothings — Five Versions of How It All Began

The Big Bang cosmological model is in trouble, but its adherents, reluctant to abandon the...

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Was “Smash” a smash?

One of NBC’s few, highly-rated new shows last year was Smash, a drama about trying to ge...

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Dispelling Some Myths About the World’s Most Persecuted People

Genome studies a few years ago established — as per the Bible thousands of years before ...

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‘Hunter’ Is an Intriguing Thriller, Weakened By Its Own Concept

“… They even make virtues out of ‘humility’ and ‘turning the other cheek’ and...

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Shelby’s ‘Killer Swell’ Is . . . Pretty Swell

First of all, I’ll just start by saying thumbs up on this one. Jeff Shelby's Killer Swe...

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Bring on the Carbon Dioxide — The Upside of “Global Warming”

The implications of a recent study of spider lilies, of all things, might cause anthropoge...

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Mad Men and Beatles

You may have heard about a little controversy from the latest episode of Mad Men.  The fi...

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Supposed New form of Christian Civic Engagement is Civic Retreat

It’s tough for conservative Christians to catch a break in America today. Even though Bi...

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“Make Room! Make Room!” — For More Government Planning, That Is

The Royal Society "knows" there are too many people on Planet Earth, and they have a cunni...

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Video Mash

Moments with folks you'd probably want to avoid: GOVERNMENT MOTORS' CAR OF THE FUTURE A...

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“Sound of My Voice”: A Skillful Use of Uncertainty

“I don’t know.” These are the final words of Sound of My Voice and might be taken...

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How Much Do Modern Scientists Owe to Bible Thumpers?

... quite a lot, as it turns out: It is commonly supposed that when in the early modern pe...

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Disappointing Look at an American Poet

If you’re a culture vulture as I am, you don’t often associate Michigan with poetry, a...

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Newswalk: Safe at Home — Really?; Mobile Wallets; and the Latest Pastime, Media Lynchings

Lying with statistics — Still as popular as ever Our experts are smarter than your expe...

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Newswalk: Brain Drain; “Forward!”; and PC Journalism

"Brain and brain! What is 'brain'?" Can it be that everybody's brain is hardwired for pol...

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Newswalk: The Downtrodden 99 Percent, The Legendary Prophet, and The Religion That Justifies Anything

"99 Percenters" — Really? Things seldom are what they seem. Take, for instance, the Occ...

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The Existentialist James Bond — More Than You Might Want to Know about Double-O Seven

It was bound to happen: After nearly two dozen escapist screen adventures, the producers o...

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Rising Feminist Discomfort with Women’s Freedom

Human nature is a stubborn thing. Despite the desires of centuries of thinkers and politic...

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Bad Ideas Are Still Having Bad Consequences — Some Background to the Norway Massacre

It helps to know what motivates a mass murderer — in this case, it's the philosophy that...

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First Amendment Is for Churches Too

My high school alma mater is a Catholic school, and it's been gathering some national atte...

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Why Bad Ideas in Academia Never Seem to Go Away

The California Association of Scholars, affiliated with the National Association of Schola...

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The Implications of Secular Hegemony in American Culture

Last year I attended an independent school conference as an exhibitor for my day job. Th...

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Perhaps the First Film Noir: ‘Stranger on the Third Floor’

Recently I had the good fortune to attend a screening of Stranger on the Third Floor (19...

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Is Television Destroying America?

You might think so if you read this piece by a Christopher Orlet at The American Spectator...

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Levon Helm and Dick Clark, RIP

When Dexter Gordon passed away in 1990, Detroit Free Press columnist Mitch Albom penned an...

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Newswalk: Canada Goes Cashless; Pay Up or the IRS Will Confiscate Your Passport; Administration Czar Approves of Government “Nudging”

Filthy Lucre There seems to be an informal push afoot to do away with cash money. Canada ...

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An Update on “Creeping Sharia” in the United Kingdom

. . . from Paul Weston of the British Freedom Party: Video: 38 minutes Must Islam alwa...

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The Downside of Cohabiting Before Marriage

If I saw the title of this post somewhere on the internet I normally wouldn’t think twic...

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Should the Government Tell Us What to Do with Our Lives?

John Stossel has made the libertarian case for personal freedom, even the freedom to do dr...

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Chain of Command