Author Neil Gaiman’s mythos represents living expressions of human limits that cannot be violated, and tasks that must be fulfilled lest flourishing vanish. In the end, despite its more radical sexual elements, The Sandman is about the structural integrity of reality. Read More… On August 5, The Sandman dropped on Netflix. For Neil Gaiman’s existing fanbase, this show was the fulfillment of decades of longing to see a beloved story brought to life. Rumors have circulated over the years that...

Had U.S. baby formula producers not been protected from petition, there would have been many more options available to parents when one lab became contaminated. And a 70-year-old wartime act would have remained a trivia question. Read More… The world is an economics classroom if we allow ourselves to learn from it. Every day we’re bombarded with puzzles that the economic way of thinking can help solve. One of the more recent examples of this is the infant-formula shortagethat plagued...

New York Times columnist David Brooks recently admitted to having significant doubts about capitalism, owing to growing wealth inequality. But is greater government intervention the answer, or the problem? Read More… In recent weeks, the New York Times has been running opinion pieces in which various columnists expound on a topic about which they have changed their views. On July 21 it was David Brooks’ turn to lay out his mea culpa. The subject turned out to be capitalism, or...

When hiring faculty, most American universities require an almost religious assent to its diversity and inclusion goals. It e as no surprise that this is resulting in more ideological conformity and less viewpoint diversity. Read More… As American universities worked tirelessly over the past couple of centuries to purge religion from institutional education, their success left a conceptual void. Without religion, the western university was in need of some of sort of metanarrative or ontological justification for its existence. It...

The film, starring Mark Wahlberg and Mel Gibson, is based on the true story of a boxer turned priest and explores how humility is the price you must sometimes pay for success. Read More… This past spring, movie theatres saw the premier of Father Stu, a Sony Pictures film starring Mark Wahlberg as Father Stu and co-starring Mel Gibson as his father. The film is based on the true story of Stuart Long, an amateur boxer from Montana who found...

She’s not the first Republican to want to do away with the DoE, and with good reason. But as with all deeply entrenched bureaucracies, it may no longer be possible. Read More… Betsy DeVos thinks the Department of Education “should not exist.” She’s not the first secretary of education we’ve had who understood her central purpose to be the dissolution of the agency of which she was in charge (until she resigned on January 7, 2021). Ronald Reagan famously pledged...

We need to stop daydreaming about Egypt and face the wilderness. Read More… This diatribe was inspired by the most amusing book I’ve ever encountered. While perusing the wares of a D.C. bookstore, I came across a tome entitled Hope Never Dies by New York Times bestselling author Andrew Shaffer, released in 2018. It isn’t an inspirational feel-good-about-your-life how-to or workout guide that makes weird forays into the philosophical. It is, and you are reading this correctly, a work of...

By pitting one group of workers against another, unionization was able to gain ground while also setting the groundwork for the deleterious effects of the welfare state on the black family. The takeaway: Prosperity does not have to be a zero-sum game. Read More… The process of industrialization upended traditional ways of life that undoubtedly caused fear and doubt. It’s no surprise that some workers destroyed machinery in fear of lost work (the Luddites) or that workers banded together to...

Traditional family values, a strong work ethic, and an informal economy have until now stood in the way of a creating a social-security scheme for most African nations. A new agenda aims to change that. What Africa needs instead are those good intentions wedded to sound economics. Read More… While bilateral and multilateral talks are hitting impasses around much of the globe, “Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want” is a continental agreement that breaks the mold. For all its lofty...

Whatever the reasons behind “The Great Resignation,” Gen Z must keep in mind that we were designed to work, to produce, to create. Read More… Is there any value to work in today’s world? This is a question that many in Generation Z find themselves asking. I started working at a very young age. By 12 years old, I already had two part-time jobs plus a side business of my own. At age 11, I started mowing lawns and doing...