CULTURE

Movies: “Eddington” Plunges Viewers Right Back to 2020

The truth is that the Covid years are the prism through which most everything else playing out in public affairs today can be read. Truth is stranger than fiction, but this fiction works beautifully precisely because it comes so very close to telling the truth in every grim detail. 

How Higher Education Wrecks Freedom

How Higher Education Wrecks Freedom

The push to force everyone into higher education has proven to be a massive diversion of financial and human energy, and, just like Schumpeter predicted, it did the cause of freedom no favors.

E Pluribus Unum

E Pluribus Unum

Few phrases from our country’s creation illustrate that disconnect better than E Pluribus Unum: out of many, one.

The Dutch and The Beginning of the Modern World

The Dutch and The Beginning of the Modern World

Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden show in their new book Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000-1800 that the Dutch preindustrial history of growth, trade, and reliance on markets for their daily bread changed well before the mid-1600s.

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