When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia. — Martin Ami...
The current arguments on abortion are faulty because they begin with the errant assumptions of physicalism—that consciousness is an emergent property of matter. I’ve seen as many arguments as I can imagine—a fetus is just a clump of cells, or a baby is not a human (or even alive) unt...
cries of voter fraud and voter intimidation, poorly marked ballots and “hanging chads,” the Electoral College vs. the popular vote arguments, and then ultimately the denying of election results. Luckily, or maybe intentionally, our elections are held prior to Thanksgiving, so at the very least...
In contrast, close to two thirds of the world’s population lives in countries or areas with below-replacement-level fertility of about 2.1 births per woman, a level that, over many decades and without much immigration, would lead to zero growth. The UN projects the populations of 61 of th...
Today’s the day that Huntsman and the church (or, rather, their attorneys) argue in front of the en banc Ninth Circuit. The hearing is set for 2:30 pm Pacific time. If you want to watch, it looks to me like the Ninth Circuit streams its oral arguments. You can find links to the...
All the major candidates, in a somewhat belated reaction to the historical wage inequity and post-Great-Recession anger of the 2007 bank-driven economic collapse, are taking populist arguments over economic ones. This may seem unusual, but we all know the pendulum swings back and forth in ...
This means in effect that biblical arguments are permitted to be put forward only by a select class of non-controversial Christians, those who are well versed in the acceptable modes of speech used by liberal progressive graduates. As well as sharing the same background as the secularists, the...
In this case, the decedent was the trustee of a trust created by her deceased spouse’s will, with the power to distribute principal to herself as the beneficiary if, in her sole discretion, it was deemed "requisite or desirable." This power would generally constitute a general power of ap...
“My parents always told me that I should become a lawyer because I was always getting the better of arguments with my brother and sister.” Comment: a bit strained. Surely your thinking has developed since then? The terms that may spring to Alex’s mind include ‘shallow’, ‘conceited’...
The Widespread Growth of the Common School & Higher Education Horace Mann and the Rise of the Common Schools Mann's Arguments that Common Schools Would Promote the Common Good Resistance to the Public Schools Contemporaries of Horace Mann in the Common School Movement The Civil War and the ...