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The European Welfare State Is Something to Be Envied (If You Don’t Live in Europe)

 by Mike Gray   On the Mises Daily weblog, Kaj Grüssner of Finland tells us that, w...

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Which Should Be Reformed First, Government or Culture?

by Mike Gray Using as his starting point the famous quotation from John Adams—"Our Cons...

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USA’s ‘Covert Affairs’ a Fresh Entry in Espionage Genre

USA Network has established itself as the master of smartly entertaining TV drama, not jus...

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TV’s 2009-10 Primetime Emmys Announced

Here's everything you could possibly need to know about this year's Emmy Awards. (more&h...

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Full Week of ‘Hawaii Five-O’ on Spike TV

Time to fire up the DVRs: Spike TV is running a week-long marathon of the 1970s cop show H...

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The Battle for the Bible Was Long and Arduous, and There Were Casualties

by Mike Gray I missed it the first time around three years ago, but I recently watched a ...

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Are We Heading for a Global Currency? You Bet Your Bottom Bancor

 by Mike Gray      On Mises Daily, Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. informs us that the...

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Ebert Under Fire

"I do think it is fair to say that Roger Ebert destroyed film criticism," says New York Pr...

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Are All Anti-Statists Impious Anarchists? New Book Says No

by Mike Gray On the libertarian website Mises Daily, Jeffrey A. Tucker reviews a book pub...

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When You Could Be Dying, Does It Matter If Your Doctor Is Religious?

by Mike Gray According to a survey conducted in Britain, ScienceDaily reports that [a]t...

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Edmund Burke vs. The French Revolution

by Mike Gray Ellis Washington continues his supplemental reading of Benjamin Wiker's new ...

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“Nothing in Evolution Can Account for the Soul of Man”

by Mike Gray These remarks are not from a creationist, as commonly defined today (and not...

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The Wisdom of the Common Man

A single question from an anonymous audience member stopped in its tracks an ABC News pane...

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This Week in Prose and Poetry

I'm still working on a pithy title for this weekly posting of links to short stories, crit...

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Theologians Say “Sit Down and Shut Up!” About the President’s Religion

by Mike Gray Is a discussion about President Obama's faith off limits? Some would say yes...

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“Pain Ray” Raises Civil Liberties Concerns, Prison Officials’ Hopes

by Mike Gray . . . and some people aren't at all happy about it—the American Civil Li...

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Time Magazine: Only Liberals Respect Privacy

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that representatives of governme...

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The Greatness of ‘Hey, Jude’

What's the greatest Beatles song  of all? Family scholars.org says it's "Hey Jude." ...

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Another Look at ‘Fahrenheit 451’ by a Libertarian

by Mike Gray Jeff Riggenbach, on the Mises Daily weblog, celebrates Ray Bradbury's birthd...

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Unmanned Aircraft Asserts Its Autonomy, Causing a Minor Panic

   by Mike Gray         We've already discussed the move on the part of t...

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Was Adolf Hitler Jewish? DNA Tests Say Maybe So

by Mike Gray One of the supreme ironies of history would be if Hitler, who regarded all n...

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New Book Fills in Gaps in the History of Islamic Terrorism

by Mike Gray The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism: Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin Al-Husse...

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Six Worldviews That Rule the Universe

by Mike Gray Author and minister David Noebel offers a concise summary of the six major v...

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“The Whole Wide World” Is a Big, Little Movie

Here's a remarkably fine, distinctive film, the victim of criminally bad distribution, whi...

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Chesterton: Darwinism Is ‘An Attack on Thought Itself’

by Mike Gray Unlike so many of today's putative spokesmen for traditional beliefs—but e...

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Jenner Bikini Shoot Raises Some Eyebrows

Fourteen-year-old celebrity manqué Kendall Jenner has posed in a skimpy bikini for a racy...

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Bradbury Praised

National Review celebrates author Ray Bradbury on his 90th birthday. Essay here.

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Is Today’s Cultural, Technical, and Political Environment the Terminal Phase in the Abolition of Man?

by Mike Gray On WND, Ellis Washington explores a sneaking suspicion that C. S. Lewis, i...

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Loyalty: The Lost Virtue

Author's note: a few months ago I profiled martial artist Ray Fisher on this site. The fol...

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Moral Imagination in Literature

The Moral Imagination in Literature: The Stories We Tell, the People We Become - An upcom...

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The KGB and the LGBTs

by Mike Gray I used to have the book from which this second-hand quote was taken, but I s...

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A Hopeful Look at America’s Future from Victor Davis Hanson

by Mike Gray In an article on Pajamas Media, Victor Davis Hanson says that all is not lost...

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Weekly Prose and Poetry Update

Upon picking up Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, this week's...