Sam Haselby says this “should be the end times” for American patriotism. Yet the opposite seems to be happening, and he can’t understand why. America has no national education system, he notes. No conscription. No government agency that enforces the red-white-and-blue rituals performed at schools and sporting events coast-to-coast. Nor does America have a territorial…
Jason Hopkins Arnold Schwarzenegger tried urging Donald Trump to join him in his campaign for a better environment by appealing to the president’s affinity for “winning.” Speaking Tuesday morning at the R20 Austrian World Summit, an offshoot of Schwarzenegger’s international non-profit, the former California governor urged Trump to take more action on climate change and ditch fossil fuels,…
Today’s education system has a myriad of advantages that earlier generations never would have dreamed about. Smartboards. Tablets. Advanced science labs. Massive libraries. These perks are wonderful and suggest that our schools are giving children a much better education than they would have had at an earlier time. But what if all these advancements are…
It’s usually assumed that climate change skeptics simply don’t care about the environment. If they did, as the reasoning goes, they would accept the science that climate change is primarily man-made and support government measures designed to curb it. But a recent study has found that climate change skeptics are actually more likely to engage in eco-friendly…
Rob Shimshock The largest Catholic university in America held an event aimed at teaching students about polyamory at it’s LGBT center in Chicago. The LGBTQA center at Chicago’s DePaul University hosted the event, which discussed open relationships and the ways in which identity intersected with them, reported Campus Reform Monday. “I never liked relationships or wanted to be in…
In 2011, California’s state legislature passed the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful (FAIR) Education Act. The law, the first of its kind in the U.S., required, among other things, that schools educate children on the contributions of LGBTQ individuals. By 2016, California’s state education board had approved 10 LGBTQ-inclusive history texts for children in kindergarten…
At the International Society for Individual Liberty’s Conference, Milton Friedman once gave a speech titled “Say ‘No’ to Intolerance” (you can find the transcription here) where he criticized the sectarianism of a part of the libertarian movement. To illustrate his point, he told an anecdote, which can be found in Barbara Branden’s biography of Ayn…
USA Today recently reported on a study commissioned by the Cigna insurance company which examined the impact of loneliness on health. The results are striking: young people are much more likely to report being lonely and in bad health than the elderly. The overall national loneliness score was a strikingly high 44 on a 20…
Joe Simonson Kanye West may need to watch his back next time he hits the town in Los Angeles after a rapper called on the city’s gang members to assault him because of his support for President Donald Trump. The threat came over Instagram from Daz Dillinger, a former member of Snoop Dogg’s 1990s rapping entourage, Tha…
Michael Bastasch A hazmat team is on its way to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Washington, D.C., headquarters to deal with a “suspicious package” left on the second floor, an agency official confirmed. “Hazmat team is on its way for a suspicious package on the second floor of headquarters,” the official told The Daily Caller News…