A Government Is More Than Capable of Addressing Multiple Crises At Once The Center - “So, to be clear, I largely favor reducing the power of the very federal government being discussed in this piece, but that is quite different from arguing that, at its current scope and scale, it is somehow incapable of addressing multiple priorities at once.” Erich J. Prince 3/20/2023
Boris Johnson’s Most Fundamental Failure: Immigration The Right - “After all, one of the major reasons for the Conservatives’ 2019 election landslide victory was due to [Johnson’s] populist rhetoric regarding mass immigration, including the Conservatives’ promise that ‘overall numbers will come down.'” Edward Howard 3/10/2023
Internet Censorship: Democrats, Remember You Could Be Out of Power One Day The Center - “The mainstream media has largely ignored the unsettling censorship tactics of the Biden administration, and Democrats—all the while—clearly cannot imagine a future Republican administration following this administration’s lead and censoring content that does not support the new administration’s political narrative or agenda.” Mike Matthys 3/7/2023
A Happy Retirement: A High Bar for High Achievers The Center - “I had lost my ambition and with it my identity. Without CEO status, who was I? If I was not leading a company, what was my purpose? How would I find contentment without that all-encompassing fixation on achievement?” Laura Black 3/6/2023
Who Will Fix a Broken Internet Landscape Before It’s Too Late? The Right - “Despite the enormous improvements that technology has contributed to the human condition, if we do not choose to fix the way the Internet works, there remains the potential for a digital Pearl Harbor-type event.” Thomas P. Vartanian 3/5/2023
How a “National Divorce” Could Actually Unite Americans The Right - “Far from giving up on the American project, national divorce aims to renew and deepen our ability to live in harmony together.” Joseph (Jake) Klein 3/2/2023
In Reply to Robert Jensen: The Folly of the Nazi Comparison The Right - “In fact, most Southerners did not own slaves; nor were Union soldiers, most of whom were drafted, fighting for the woke ideals of Jensen or the Southern Poverty Law Center.” Paul Gottfried 2/17/2023
Republicans Should Stop Pandering about Charter Schools The Right - “I have no idea why Republicans and the GOP media fall over themselves rallying to the cause of those who hate them and who would never vote for them, no matter what.” Paul Gottfried 2/9/2023
Arguments Against School Choice Presume We Have Options The Center - “In short, if public schooling on average is so woefully inadequate, how can we take seriously the argument that if a family cannot afford or otherwise access private or home schooling, public schooling is a perfectly sufficient choice?” Dixie Dillon Lane 2/3/2023
Stop Pretending All Cultures Are the Same The Left - “So I will say it with my heart, and others should too: If a culture persecutes LGBT people, is overtly racist, or makes women second class citizens, then to hell with that culture. My culture is better than that one.” Johan Pregmo 1/27/2023
Understanding Why Netanyahu Won The Center - “Whatever else one may think about the unholy trinity of Prime Minister Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, and Bezalel Smotrich, they are, among other things, willing to discuss the serious internal security concerns that much of the country outside of Tel Aviv faces.” Elizabeth Emery 1/11/2023
Work Is About Knowledge That Pays and Relationships That Are Priceless The Center - “And both wages and relationships advance worker opportunity, the essential elements of which are what individuals know (i.e., profitable knowledge) and whom they know (i.e., priceless relationships).” Bruno V. Manno 12/15/2022
On the Inevitability of Racism The Center - “As psychoanalysis long ago has perspicaciously demonstrated, prejudice is universal to human nature and is evolutionarily informed.” Jon Mills 12/5/2022
COVID-19 and the Banality of Evil The Left - “Compulsory obedience can especially be seen in how the Democratic Party has changed since the election of President Biden in 2020. Before he entered office, COVID-19 was more accepted as an important and legitimate issue.” Andrew Joseph Pegoda 12/4/2022
Russia Will Pursue Desperate Strategies After It Exhausts Its Missile Supply The Center - “Aside from the fact that history shows that rockets are far more useful at inflicting damage against military than civilian targets, their misuse may indicate an underlying strategic desperation in the Kremlin.” Julian Spencer-Churchill 12/1/2022
The First Metaverse Nation The Center - “What is new, in this case, is that the people of Tuvalu are hoping their future metaverse-based civilization will continue to function as a state and will be recognized internationally as a proper nation.” Peter Clarke 12/1/2022