The Need for Dialogue
My main motivation for starting this website (other than to give myself a platform for venting my opinions) was to start conversations. What this world desperately needs is more dialogues … Read More
Category: Cultural Issues
Cultural issues are concerned with our relations and duties to each other. They include questions on ethics, morality, and mores.
Civil Disobedience (Continued)
It seems like Charles Murray’s call for conservative civil disobedience is garnering more interest. An interview of Murray by a somewhat skeptical Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic magazine has just … Read More
Echoes of the Great Depression: Japan
I was expecting “Japan’s lost decades” to be an easy story to tell. However, when I started researching for this post, I discovered a controversy existed on whether a lost decade … Read More
The Long Arm of the Federal Government Monster
This morning I read something immensely disturbing on the Wall Street Journal opinion page (access requires subscription). It reconfirms for me (as if I were ever in doubt) how controlling the … Read More
Civil Disobedience
This morning Michael Barone passed on a suggestion from Charles Murray: Government has become so intrusive in our lives and limits so much of our personnel freedoms, particularly economic, that … Read More
The Ferguson Effect
Last week some news outlets took note of a big crime wave that began in Baltimore after six Baltimore police officers were indicted for the murder of Freddie Gray [See … Read More
How Should We Think About ISIS?
One big disagreement between the right and the left over the past year is how we should think about ISIS. Should we think of the conflict between ISIS and western … Read More
Is Racism the Cause of Blacks’ Problems – Or is Government?
A new post by Walter Williams raises the subject of a perennial conflict between progressives and conservatives. What is the major cause of the social and economic problems of black … Read More