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“Mathematics Can Be Applied to All Areas of Life” — Not So, Says Murray Rothbard

In his introduction to the revised edition of Man, Economy, and State, Rothbard touches on...

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What Ever Happened to Al Gore?

We may have reached a watershed moment in American culture. As I made my morning trek to t...

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Book Review: ‘Long Way Down’

Sam Mackenzie lives on his boat in a Miami Beach marina; he's never formally identified as...

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Pulped! — Reading Just for the Fun of It

Hannah Sternberg, at PJ Media, thinks it's pointless to assign too much significance to ev...

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Shocking Entertainment Has Some Exalted Company

Most Americans no longer have a close familiarity with the Bible and the stories of the Bi...

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Van Damme Cinema: Meaningless, Silly, Senseless . . . in a Word, Priceless!

I have a confession to make. I love action movies, especially all those movies from the 80...

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In the Beginning, There Was Nothing — and Then It Exploded …

Does cosmology rule out God — or at least render Him superfluous? Lawrence Krauss thinks...

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A Megadownload

First and Fourth Amendment rights continue to suffer serial battery at the hands of those ...

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Unintended Consequences Abundantly Flow from the 16th Amendment

"The Sixteenth Amendment has widened the area of government power, and as a consequence ha...

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The Cultural Value of Reading

Victor Davis Hanson defends good old-fashioned reading, a process that serves as a conveyo...

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A Master of Mystery Passes—Au Revoir, Reginald Hill

Reginald Hill, author of the Peter Pascoe and Andy Dalziel mystery series, passed away o...

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Joe R. Lansdale’s Mythic Noir

Edge of Dark Water, by Joe R. Lansdale (Mulholland, March 2012) Fantasist David Eddings...

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Lawhead’s ‘The Skin Map’ Is an Enjoyable Series Opener

Stephen Lawhead has never been a conventional Christian author, or even a conventional fa...

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A Dramatic Documentary: ‘The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby’

Before seeing this excellent documentary, I knew little about William Colby beyond the fac...

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President Invents New Kind of Job

PJ Media blogger Zombie says there just might be a new thing under the sun: In my admitted...

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John Stewart Throws Conservatives Some Crumbs

You may have seen the link on our Newswire, ‘Daily Show’ Brilliantly Exposes President...

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Dim Bulbs

If, like our president, you feel virtuous paying more for energy, then you'll love this: A...

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The Sheer Joy of Genre Reading: Dirda’s ‘On Conan Doyle, or, The Whole Art of Storytelling’

The great majority of fictional detectives come, strut for a time upon the bloody stage ...

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Stuck on Pogo

Stefan Kanfer has warmed my heart with an affectionate article on the cartoonist Walt Kel...

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Unexpected ‘Devil Inside’ Success Reflects Rising Interest in Demonic

For many decades, including most of the twentieth century, the subjects of demonic possess...

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Tebow 3:16!

I know, I know, God doesn’t care who wins football games—I think. But I do know God li...

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Book Review: ‘The Best of Ellery Queen’

The Best of Ellery Queen: Four Decades of Stories from the Mystery Masters. Edited by Fran...

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Book Review: ‘The Spotted Cat’

Christianna Brand's Inspector Cockrill appeared in almost a score of novels, short stories...

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Getting Old Can Have Its Compensations … I Think

Here are 19 reasons why being over 60 isn't all bad: 1. Kidnappers are not very intereste...

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The Little People Who Weren’t There

. . . and they weren't there again today. It's called the Principle of Mediocrity: The ...

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Dark but Balanced History in AMC’s Hell on Wheels

The AMC-TV drama series Hell on Wheels (Sundays, 10 p.m. EST) takes a rather cynical vie...

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California to the Rescue Again!

Truly, I don’t know how any of us survived prior to the nanny state protecting us from o...

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Would You Push the Red Button?

It's not just the economy, stupid, it's the culture: We are experiencing an ongoing financ...