The Boomer Mirage
While the specific figures combine data from multiple sources, the trend is undeniable: in 1950, over half of 30-year-olds were married homeowners. By 2025, some analysts project that number as low as 13%.
A Small Book About Real Life
I’ve never been as excited and nervous about a new book of mine. Each chapter covers an animating spirit of the historical American ethos: respect, hard work, pioneering, gratitude, patience, faith, independence, forbearance, and so on.
Why the Pesticide Liability Protection Act Threatens Our Food Supply and the Health of a Nation
The history of corporate liability shields teaches us a clear lesson: when companies are freed from accountability, public safety inevitably suffers. We cannot allow the same corporate immunity that transformed the pharmaceutical industry to be replicated in agriculture.
On Defiling the Human Body
How does this 14th-century perspective compare with the attitude towards the human body that one witnesses in today’s world? Putting it plainly, the medieval detour puts current practices involving the human body in a perspective that should be unsettling.
Tuberculosis: Romance and Vampires
As long as societies maintain a system of ordered liberty, and encourage economic growth and unlimited human potential, TB will remain kept at bay, much as M. tuberculosis is contained in the lungs by our TB-adapted immune system.
A Sceptic’s Take on the Nuclear Bomb
The only choice is between nuclear abolition or cascading proliferation and guaranteed use. Proponents of nuclear weapons are ‘nuclear romantics’ who exaggerate the bombs’ significance, downplay their substantial risks, and imbue them with ‘quasi-magical powers’ also known as nuclear deterrence.
Brilliant “Eddington” Plunges Viewers Right Back to 2020
If the purpose of Eddington is to bring some honesty to the table, I doubt it will work, despite the film’s astonishing brilliance. One can only hope that Eddington is the first of many more films along these lines.
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Hiroshima at 80: Setting the Abhorrent Precedent
Now, 80 years later, it is still necessary to reflect on the decision to use these weapons against largely civilian populations. It is imperative now to question the orthodoxy that has taken hold of so much of accepted military history.
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The Systematic Unraveling of the Administrative State
We’ve wondered for many years what the revolution would look like when it came home. We got a glimpse of this last week, when iPhone cameras recorded thousands of State Department employees carrying their belongings out in bankers’ boxes.
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Update on International Health Regulation Amendments
Much has been written on the amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR), which most countries are subject to after July 19th. Most are missing the main point; the stupidity and fallacy on which the whole pandemic agenda is based.
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Ideological Firewalls Work Quite Well…Until They Don’t
Our prime task is the unglamorous—and for many in this culture that worships action for action’s sake—unsatisfying task of circling back to things like love, compassion, friendship, touch, and sincere dialogue that lie at the core of being human.
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The Hippocratic Oath and the Covid Debacle
The discussion focuses on two things – first, the fact that, in the United States, most graduating medical students perform some form of the oath, and second, that in many quarters the relevance of this code of action has lately been questioned.