This Wednesday, April 10, Dave Smith welcomes pseudo-intellectual extraordinaire Ben Burgis in studio to discuss the notion of taxation as theft. Given that Smith is the funniest and one of the brightest libertarians around today, I hope that Burgis comes prepared–he’s not going to be in the echo chamber there. I also hope that Rutgers…
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Central to the tenets and legacy of Enlightenment thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the notion of the general will drives the left to this day. It sounds democratic—but it is not. It is, the idea of the general will, an elaborate justification for a kind of intellectual aristocracy rising to power. Envision a group of Plato’s philosopher…
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I have long been confused by the term “intersectionality”–mainly because it constitutes nothing but modern cultural Marxist blather–but thanks to the astute and pretentious students (that is an admission requirement) at Notre Dame, I’ve finally figured it out. BuzzFeed is reporting that a mother wrote a letter against female students wearing leggings to Mass. Per…
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Oh, the terrible injussieness–sorry injustice–of the whole episode! How long really could the Socialist Republic of Cook and its capital, Chicago, carry on this persecution of poor Jussie without recognizing that the rule of law is so dead and buried here that a black, homosexual actor would have to receive some sort of preferential treatment…
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What a wormhole I opened up here! The genesis of it (pun intended) emerged from the time and season: Baseball is opening and the Players’ tournament just ended with the Masters on the horizon. My initial entry point was just to mark and compare the good, the true and the beautiful of both sports. Which…
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A Blessed Feast Day of St. Joseph, to all Fathers, to all Good Priests, to all Workers, to all Men. __________ For several months now, I’ve been taking my kids to St. Mary of the Angels Church in Bucktown, Chicago for Mass. If you are unaware of St. Mary’s and live in the Chicago area,…
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Don’t let the title fool you. And, don’t let the fact that everybody and their aunt has a new TV series for you to stream prohibit you from watching the best of the best. Netflix’s Godless is just that. Godless, an eight-part miniseries, features everything you could want, meaning the most necessary ingredients of historical…
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Bryan Caplan misnamed his recent tour-de-force on the failures of the American education system. The Case Against Education should be entitled The Case Against Schooling, as the great Gene Epstein has pointed out. Still, Caplan’s research and arguments lead to the ultimate conclusions that Brett Veinotte at the SchoolSucks Project and Tom Woods among others have…
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Fr. Strebola, O.P. really got me today. A blessed and holy Lent to all Christians. Remember that we are dust and to dust we shall return: We thirst for His grace and salvation. *Henry Jones Sr. and Indy were right in The Last Crusade: Only the penitent man will pass.
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