2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (305+ words) AI can’t do our learning or thinking for us, but it excels at making us dependent on its substitution of learning and thinking, and the resulting state of helplessness when we have to think for ourselves. There are a number…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1322+ words) NASA claims that between 1969 and 1972 twelve men walked on the Moon. They supposedly travelled approximately a quarter of a million miles from Earth, landed on the lunar surface, walked and drove across it, and launched themselves back into lunar orbit…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (718+ words) It was decades ago now that commentator Alan Keyes, responding to talk of “crises” (e.g., the economic crisis), added perspective. The real crisis we need worry about, he warned, is our “moral crisis.” Virtue in the people is the…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (482+ words) Much of what is written here is guided by the fact I spend a lot of time thinking about the problems the world faces and what solutions could potentially address them, either now or in the future when cultural circumstances…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (768+ words) When you look at present day America 2.0, you almost have to marvel at the depth of the unfairness, injustice, and criminality all around us. As I’ve said so many times, there is nothing accidental about it. None of the randomness…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (632+ words) Andrew Kolvet of Turning Point USA and Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire recently triggered a firestorm on social media with a post about how burritos shouldn’t cost so much. The $20 Burrito Tweet touched a nerve with many, and it…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (328+ words) The only “reform” that changes our lives in a fundamentally positive way is radical decentralization via distributing centralized power. Presidents like to deal with the CEOs of corporate monopolies for self-evident reasons: Rather than engage in the tedious, contentious herding-of-cats…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (153+ words) People in our sphere like to talk about this thing called the Overton Window. Anytime somebody proposes a political initiative or a protest movement or a petition or a publicity campaign that is either manifestly unworkable, counterproductive or ill-advised, we…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1277+ words) The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to add four-legged robots to ICE’s growing enforcement arsenal. They are often called “robot dogs,” a friendly label that makes the machines sound more familiar, if not sympathetic, and far less threatening than…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (866+ words) It wasn’t that long ago that our society valued heroes and heroic virtue. Young people would look up to certain individuals who possessed the qualities of virtue, perseverance, humility, and courage. Countless individuals who overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to achieve…...