Roe Aborted
Back in November 1972, I was 17 years old and seven months shy of voting. But I campaigned against Proposal B, an initiative in Michigan that would have legalized abortion. We defeated it, with 61% voting Nay.
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Wednesday’s Child: Rock Paper Scissors
“People spend their lives collecting documents to prove their identity,” my wife says grimly. “And when they die, it all goes in the bin.” That’s just what we’ve doing for the past few weeks, collecting documents.
Who Owns America in 2022?
Why would Bill Gates buy farmland in North Dakota? Should he be permitted?
Unholy Dying, Part I: The Abortion Debate
In the 20th century the most powerful and difficult transitions in human life have been turned into political war zones in which the different sides routinely invoke the power of government to establish and enforce their points of view.
Supreme Court Returns Infanticide to the States
Today’s announcement of the Court’s decision to overturn Roe and to return they regulation to the states was long overdue, but the defenders of innocent life are making a serious mistake, if they think the war is over. We have not only not even won a major battle, but the reliance on the Court shows how weak we rally are.
Wednesday’s Child: Lapdogs and Other Vermin
Socially, Palermo is divided into classes, the lower and the middle. The aristocracy, which has a presence and a political voice in Venice or Rome, has no influence in Sicily, and neither does the great business wealth that has all but displaced nobility throughout Europe.
The Great Revolution: III: Equality, Part C: Epicurus and The Cancer of Natural Equality
In addition to his legacy of materialism, hedonism, and the myth of the social contract, Epicurus also bequeathed a cynical attitude toward truth. While Aristotle and his students studied nature to find out how natural processes work, Epicurus and his disciples were only interested in attaining a serenity that was only possible in a godless universe.
Dumb versus Dumber–The Gun Control Debate
Want to reduce irrational violence? Empower parents and shut down Hollywood.
Argentina Smolders, and the PRC Fuels the Fire by Russell Gordon,
Argentina is undergoing one of its recurring increases in violent crime and social implosion, by some accounts worse than those of the crises-plagued 90’s.
The Great Revolution: III: Equality, Part B: Stoic Universalism
It is easy to see how an empowered sense of equality might lead a blind law student into feeling justified at demanding, at public expense, a reader to help him get through his courses. The question, though, is why do people who are not blind acquiesce in the foolishness?
