“Men have been taught that the highest virtue is not to achieve, but to give. Yet one cannot give that which has not been created. Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.”

Why is it that some ideas or behaviors or products start epidemics and others don't? And what can we do to deliberately start and control...

“With less incentive for people to take on less pleasant work, less will be produced, and because of that there will be less to go around...

“The debate about immigration is really about the integration of non-Western minorities into Western societies, and that is a debate,...

“By our calculations, the total value of the real estate held but not legally owned by the poor of the Third World and former communist...

“Learning to draw the distinction between individual rights and the happiness of the greatest number may, in fact, become a factor in a...

“To think of some people as simply being higher achievers than others, for whatever reason, is a threat to today's prevailing vision, for it implicitly places the onus on the lagging group to achieve more, and, perhaps more important, deprives the intelligentsia of their role of fighting on the side of the angels against the forces of evil.” – Intellectuals and Race Ready or not, the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers' union in the country, recently ap

“The black flag comes in many colors.” – The Anarchist Handbook In 1995, a rental truck laced with explosives detonated outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, causing one of the worst cases of domestic terrorism in American history. The perpetrator, Timothy McVeigh, a self-described incel and anti-government activist, had become enraged following federal raids on Ruby Ridge in 1993 and the Waco Branch Davidians in 1995. His counterattack would kill

“If no one has even one percent of the knowledge currently available, not counting the vast amounts of knowledge yet to be discovered,...

“Meat is a singular focus of all that is wrong with the modern world, including individual health concerns, privilege, and destroying the...

“Fossil-fueled development is the greatest benefactor our environment has ever known.” – The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels Oil is the...

“The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just the time when God can’t give it: you are like the...

“American business, by enabling so much wealth creation and by creating so many new opportunities, arguably has outperformed any other set of private institutions in all of world history.” – Big Business In August 2020, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos became the first person to pass the $200 billion mark in net worth, setting off a firestorm of criticism and anti-capitalist rage. Yet, despite the constant protest over corporate and CEO earnings, there is rare objection toward other high

“To realize that we live in an absurd culture where we are taught absurd things by absurd people and threatened with absurd consequences...

“It's no coincidence that cons tend to thrive in the wake of disaster: natural disaster, illness, economic disaster, national disaster, personal disaster…Fear is one of the con artist's great friends.” – The Confidence Game As the morning after dawns, the damage done by the Coronavirus and the official governmental responses will finally be subjected to the light of day. The deaths, the cases, the hospitalizations, the lockdowns, the mask mandates, and the PCR testing cycles

“Gender has transformed into a cultlike concept, and public knowledge has been overturned to reflect pleasantries that affirm the...

“Adolescent girls who suddenly identify as trans in adolescence…are likely a mixed bag of at least three groups: some kids who are going...

“Where their ancestors defended the pope from enemies of the faith, they now must defend the faith from a pope who aligns with her...

“I challenge anyone to find a passage in scripture in which Jesus called on any government - Roman, Jewish, or another - to tax some and give to others as a method of assisting the needy.” – Was Jesus A Socialist? The question “What Would Jesus Do?” (WWJD) made a cultural comeback in the 1990s as a reminder to consider our spiritual instruction as we face moral predicaments in everyday life. Unfortunately, that benign phrase has now morphed into the more menacing query, “Is

“And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.)” – Oh, the Places You’ll Go! As is often the case, even...