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- A Christmas Message from the Editor December 24, 2024What I learned about Christianity from a visit to the Louvre with my baby.Claire Lehmann
- Podcast #265: Did Oliver Cromwell Really Kill Christmas? December 24, 2024Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with David Crowther about seventeenth-century puritan attitudes toward yuletide debauchery—and about his acclaimed History of England podcast.Quillette
- Green Acceleration December 23, 2024It is time to take environmentalism away from the environmentalists.Craig DeLancey
- A Christmas Message from the Editor December 24, 2024
- Jay Nordlinger
- Carols, Choruses, Etc. December 24, 2024On a podcast of Christmas music.Jay Nordlinger
- Words & Music December 23, 2024Reader mail on poetry, memorized.Jay Nordlinger
- WFB: Big, and Glorious December 23, 2024William F. Buckley Jr. was a man of parts.Jay Nordlinger
- Carols, Choruses, Etc. December 24, 2024
Author Archives: Joe Benning
The Fat Lady is Warming Up
It is now mid November. Apparently though, no one has gotten around to telling President Trump that the presidential election is over and done with and that he lost. While no one disputes his right to seek legal remedies for … Continue reading
The Most Important Election…is a Victory for Gridlock
Every four years, right on schedule, we are told that “This election is the most important of your life.” And of course, it isn’t. Just like the one we are in the process of finishing wasn’t. Not by a long … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged election 2020, Gridlock, Joe Biden, politics, President Trump
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Leonard Nimoy on Life, Art and Culture
Back in 1989 the film critic and social commentator Michael Medved conducted a wide ranging interview of actor Leonard Nimoy; the interview focused primarily on arts and culture. Although he is most famous for playing the Vulcan Mr. Spock on … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged art, culture, Film, Hillsdale College, Leonard Nimoy, LLAP, Michael Medved, Spock, Star Trek
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Ben Sasse for President
We are once again faced with the question of whether it is worth voting in the Presidential race and if so, for whom. Before considering any particular candidate, let’s have a look at the question of why vote at all. … Continue reading
Socialist Destructionism
Ludwig von Mises, a founder of the Austrian School of Economics served as a professor of economics at New York University from 1945 through 1969. He was a towering intellect who was influenced by and associated with some of the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Politics
Tagged DiLorenzo, Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse, libertarian, Marx, Mises, Socialist Destruction, utopian socialism
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Can Trump Win the 2020 Race?
To win, he has to pull an inside straight. With time running out, it’s not likely. But it is possible. The Biden campaign strategy has always been to focus the race on Trump’s personality and avoid policy. In this he … Continue reading
Is Voting Rational?
See the video below by the editor-in-chief of Reason Magazine, Katherine Mangu-Ward. JFB
Posted in Political Philosophy, Politics
Tagged Biden, policy, Reason Magazine, Trump, Voting
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