The best-selling author of How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi, has admitted that his so-called “antiracist” movement believes that Jesus was a political “revolutionary” and that trying to “save” souls is “racist theology” which only “breeds bigotry.” Continue Reading...
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March 26, 2021
FAQ: What is the Jewish holiday of Passover?
On the Jewish calendar, Passover (or “Pesach” in Hebrew) is always celebrated between the 15th and 22nd day of the month of Nissan. What is this Jewish holy day, and how is it celebrated? Continue Reading...
March 25, 2021
Equity? New bill could kick minority teachers out of the classroom
Lawmakers in Minnesota, the crucible of last summer’s deadly riots, have made a concerted effort to increase the number of minorities teaching in the public schools. That goal is on a collision course with a bill that would cut off pathways to becoming a teacher and could throw more minority teachers out of work than the state recruits. Continue Reading...
March 22, 2021
Murray Rothbard on Christianity, Catholicism, and theology
A hidden gem of Murray Rothbard’s thinking on the “Whig Theory of History” was published by the Mises Institute here in 2010. This publication was excerpted from an edited transcript of “Ideology and Theories of History” (ITH), the first in a series of six lectures on the history of economic thought given by Rothbard in 1986, published here in 2006. Continue Reading...
March 19, 2021
China’s crackdown knocks Hong Kong off list of economically free nations
One of the perennial realities of modern history is that Hong Kong ranks near the top of any list of the most economically free nations. But 2020 altered history in many unforeseen ways. Continue Reading...
March 19, 2021
Jordan Peterson on the universal basic income
As we enter a new age of automation and artificial intelligence, fears about job loss and human obsolescence are troubling the cultural imagination. Prosperity abounds, but innovators like Elon Musk and Bill Gates continue to predict a future where humans steadily diminish in their contributions, becoming ever more dependent on external sources of provision. Continue Reading...
March 19, 2021
Rev. Robert Sirico on Ayn Rand’s search for God
“Who is John Galt?” That line, which motivated millions of readers to slog their way through Ayn Rand’s tome Atlas Shrugged, is more than a plea to establish someone’s identity; it embodies Rand’s longing for the transcendent One, according to Rev. Continue Reading...
March 16, 2021
How does human work further human dignity?
For all the claims regarding the subjectivity of economics, including schools of thought that emphasize subjective value theory and the descriptive rather than the normative, much mainstream economic thought focuses on what seems to be objective and measurable. Continue Reading...
March 15, 2021
States’ rights, federal behavior: Alabama and COVID-19 spending
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” – Lord Acton.
Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is known for saying, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. Continue Reading...
March 12, 2021
Luis Palau, RIP: 6 quotations from ‘the Billy Graham of Latin America’
Internationally renowned evangelist Luis Palau, whose global missionary efforts earned him the nickname “the Billy Graham of Latin America” and “the Apostle Paul to the Spanish-speaking world,” passed away from lung cancer on Thursday morning at age of 86. Continue Reading...