Culture
It Isn’t Easy Being Green
As people assemble on the National Mall to celebrate Earth Day today, the idea that man-made global warming is threatening our…
A Tax on the Pursuit of Happiness
President Obama’s first tax increase went into effect yesterday, in the form of the single greatest federal tax increase ever…
High Crimes and Michael Phelps
Last week, a Wall Street Journal op-ed screamed “Arrest Michael Phelps!” and a sheriff in South Carolina threatened to prosecute…
The Meaning of New Year’s Resolutions
Alex Epstein of the Ayn Rand Institute has written a great column about the significance of New Year's resolutions and…
Alan Greenspan is Not an Objectivist
Larry Breinhart of the Huffington Post and Barrett Sheridan of Newsweek are two of many commentators to use Alan Greenspan's…
Welcome to the Post-Danish-Cartoons World
The BBC News reports that, on the eve of its long-anticipated release, Sony recalled its latest video game, LittleBigPlanet, from…
Could I Get a Hand?
I looked up at the bicycle box, a little perturbed. It sat high above my head on a shelf that…
American Apathy Towards “the New Normal”
Seven years ago, after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and President Bush's subsequent declaration of war on…
The Environmentalist Attack on Outdoorsmanship
This past summer, The Economist published an article ("Out of the Wilderness") pointing to a decade long trend of declining…
Enforcing ‘Constructive Behavioral Change’
A group of college presidents has sparked debate by signing a petition urging the drinking age be lowered to 18,…