Why central planning always fails.

I’m learning some new words today. A “rouelle” was a yellow circular ring used in the medieval 13th century to identify Jews. Other identifying markers have been used as early as the 8th century to identify Jews for persecution. The most recent example of such a mark is the yellow “Jude” arm bands worn by [...]

In Unholy Alliance I showed how the ACLU works with pro-Communist and pro-Hamas organizations like the Center for Constitutional Rights to defend terrorists and undermine America’s security. What we are witnessing in this conflation of “liberal” with “radical” is a 21st century version of the 1930’s popular front between Communists and liberals.

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July 19, 2010 By Steve Balch When it comes to proving discrimination in academe, the bar is set fairly low. Little more than the simple fact of underrepresentation is usually required, after which the worst can safely be assumed. Exempt from this inference are a few groups deemed beneficiaries of past bias and hence legitimate [...]

What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger’s [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live [...]

St. Thomas Aquinas defined “peace” as the tranquility of order, tranquillitas ordinis.  He believed that the individual human soul and society find fulfillment when their actions are directed towards a good end in a prioritized manner.  For most, the end, or goal of each day is simply earning a living to care for family and [...]

What do Muslim’s do when they conquer their enemies? They build a mosque at the site of their destruction. It is the ultimate symbol of their victory, and now they are planning to do it in New York.

Victor Davis Hanson is an extraordinary writer with an encyclopedic knowledge of historical warfare. His columns are magnificent and his books are even better. So, I was pleased to have an opportunity to interview him about his newest book, The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern .
What follows is a slightly edited [...]

Loyalty to bad commitments leads to moral incoherence, which also manifests itself in Christopher [Hitchen's] choices of friends and enemies. The epic struggle against totalitarianism for much of the 20th Century was America’s cold war against the Soviet empire. But during the last decades of this cold war, Christopher’s platform was the Nation magazine – America’s leading journal [...]

The Eighteenth Century lexicographer, Samuel Johnson is remembered, in part, for a famous observation he made about executions: “When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” It is the timeline that sets the mark and focuses the attention. Who doesn’t know that death is waiting? But [...]