John Pinheiro: You are the Hungarian ambassador to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta. When ambassadors write books, we expect them to be about diplomacy, international law, cultural exchange among nations. Continue Reading...
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October 11, 2024
Taxing Unrealized Capital Gains Will Realize Less than Nothing
The time for sound economic thinking is now. Reading the economic policy news is a daily head-spinning experience. Price-gouging, “greedflation,” $25K government cash subsidies for new homebuyers, eliminating taxes on tips,expanded child tax credits, and taxing unrealized capital gains top the list. Continue Reading...
October 10, 2024
Anglican Churches No Longer ‘Churches’
What on earth is an “NWC”? Well, options include Northwest College, Wyoming, and the National Water Council, an obscure statutory government agency in Britain. Thanks, Google.
According to a report from the rather grand-sounding Center for Church Planting Theology and Research, based within a Church of England seminary at the University of Durham, NWC means “new worshipping community.” Continue Reading...
October 09, 2024
Lionel Shriver and the Resistance to Satire
Of all the literary genres, satire is the most vexatious. Like Lionel Shriver herself, it is deliberately provocative. Likewise, it is adept at making enemies: Those with sensitive hides seem to resent having them flayed. Continue Reading...
October 08, 2024
What About Us? Lebanon, Liberty, and the Christians
Waking up in a foreign land, immediately rushing to my phone, looking up what happened last night, under the iron and the fire, while I was asleep, with nothing over my head but the stars and the cold breeze of the night. Continue Reading...
October 03, 2024
What Will Americans Celebrate in 2026?
As we approach the 250th anniversary of American independence in 2026, what exactly will Americans be celebrating? The 1619 Project rejects 1776 as an important moment in the history of liberty. Continue Reading...
October 02, 2024
Video Vikings and Christian Conversion
When Viking reenactors (like me) chat around campfires among our wedge-shaped tents, certain topics are likely to come up in conversation. One favorite: everything that’s wrong with the History Channel’s Vikings TV series (2013–2020). Continue Reading...
September 30, 2024
Redefining ‘Academic Excellence’ Will Not Save Colleges
Since March of 2020, “at least 64 public or nonprofit colleges have closed, merged, or announced closures or mergers,” affecting an estimated 46,720 students. More than 500 have shut down in the past decade. Continue Reading...
September 27, 2024
The Better Angels of Bad Monkey
I started watching Bad Monkey, the latest Apple TV+ series, one of the funnier things on offer this year, for two reasons. First, I like Vince Vaughn a lot. He was clever in his 2000s persona in comedies with Will Ferrell and Owen Wilson: Old School (2003), Dodgeball (2004), Wedding Crashers (2005). Continue Reading...
September 26, 2024
Creativity and the Entrepreneurial Promise of Italy
Any country not continually innovating, striving to create better material and civil conditions for the next generation, runs the risk of becoming economically impotent, politically irrelevant, and culturally ossified. This was the main issue discussed at this year’s Communion and Liberation meeting in Rimini, Italy. Continue Reading...
