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The Warmth of Collectivism, and Other Socialist Absurdities

Socialism promises warmth, equality, and fairness. In practice, it centralizes power, rations scarcity, and delivers a system best described as trickle-down socialism.

Arts and Entertainment

Cabaret and Collapse: The Seduction That Preceded the Storm

Fascism was not a contradiction of Weimar decadence. It was its consequence. It is easy, perhaps too easy, to be dazzled by Cabaret. The music...

Hollywood Phonies Fear AI Fakes

Hollywood has finally met a fraud more convincing than itself: an AI actress named Tilly Norwood. She doesn’t eat, doesn’t age, doesn’t negotiate, doesn’t...

culture

The Vanishing Man and the Cult(ure) that Burned Him

A response to the New York Times article: "Men, Where Have You Gone? Please Come Back" Few actors possess the peculiar gift of turning the...

Artificial Omniscience: When the Algorithm Becomes Our God

It has long been the pattern of mankind to exchange the living God for clever imitations. The idols of wood and stone were never...

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immigration

Notes from London: A Polite People in a Fraying Democracy

My wife and I have just returned from the United Kingdom, and I have plenty of good things to say about the country. If...

abortion

The Hollow Empathy of the “Pro-Choice” Christian

It is a peculiar affliction of modern discourse that the more self-evident a moral truth becomes, the more elaborate and disingenuous the attempts to...

sports

religion

Satan Plays Both Sides

How Moral Certainty Corrupts Politics and Corrodes the Soul We are often tempted to think that the great danger in public life is the presence...

What Atheists Can Learn From Lawyers

Part I: The Anatomy of a Verdict Everyone enjoys a good murder mystery, so see if you can solve this one. My first job as an...

Why Hitler Hated Christianity, But Not Atheism

Among those self-styled learned types who congratulate themselves for having cast off the allegedly “repressive” inheritance of Christianity, it has become common to the...

economics

Law and the Courts

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