Recent hospital stay

By Tom Woods A close family member recently spent the night in the hospital, where doctors monitored her blood pressure. The bill, before insurance, came to about $53,000. It’s all right to admit that there’s something wrong with American health care. We’re not betraying the free market in […]

Lyceum Round-Table #73: Year in Review 2022

This will be the last Lyceum Round-Table for this year. Keith, Swithun, Terminal and Todd will discuss how the year went and make tentative predictions for next year. Locals: https://praiseoffolly.locals.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PoFPodcast Telegram: t.me/PraiseOfFolly_1511 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PraiseOfFoll… BuyMeACoffe: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PraiseOf… Subscribe Star: https://www.subscribestar.com/PraiseO…

What Long Covid means

The American Conservative Dear Reader,The latest issue of the magazine is out in print and fully online for members. But of course that means we are featuring a couple each week, too, pulled out from behind the paywall for you readers that haven’t taken us up on our […]

Activism as Education

By David Pan  Telos This week we have released a podcast interview with J. E. Elliott, who discusses his recent article, “Brand English and Its Discontents: Situating Truth and Value in the University Today” in Telos 200. I discuss with him the way in which activism has become the focus […]

Rising: December 15, 2022 Full Show-Elon Musk suspends user who posted flight tracking data despite promising not to last month

Elon Musk suspends user who posted flight tracking data despite promising not to last month Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave give their takes on Twitter’s “permaban” of @ElonJet, an account that tracked Elon Musk’s private jet. College student Jack Sweeney created the account in 2020. Briahna Joy […]

Emancipation’s Limitations

New York Review of Books Sponsored by Classical Pursuits Sean Wilentz The Emancipators’ Vision Was abolition intended as a perpetuation of slavery by other means? Natalia Ginzburg and Alba de Céspedes On Women: An Exchange “That article of mine spoke of women in general, and said things we all know: […]

Gen Z’s slang, decoded

Nicholas Carlson December 15, 2022   Hello, Insiders. Glad to be back. Here’s a story our readers were into while I was out: Walmart rolled out self-checkout to streamline operations and reduce labor — but employees and customers say it’s causing a surge in thefts.   This makes […]

Jose Nino’s Digest: December 14, 2022 POLL: Plurality of Voters Believe Amnesty for Illegal Alien invaders Will Worsen Immigration Problems, and more

Here are my most recent articles for you POLL: Plurality of Voters Believe Amnesty for Illegal Alien invaders Will Worsen Immigration Problems As Congress is floating an amnesty program for illegal aliens, a plurality of voters believe such a program will exacerbate the current border crisis. Per the […]

How Gen Z Could Transform American Politics

By Monica Potts and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux DEC. 14, 2022, AT 10:41 AM PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER / GETTY IMAGES Welcome to Invisible Divides, a series exploring the profound differences in worldview between Democrats and Republicans. These beliefs about education, religion, gender and race align with partisanship — but run much […]

The Political Psychopath

From the boardroom to the war room Harrison Koehli 5 hr ago Remember Rod? TANNEN MAURY/EPA/SHUTTERSTOCK Before their research into corporate psychopathy, Paul Babiak and his colleagues raised several questions in need of answers. They are equally relevant to the study of political psychopathy and can be rephrased […]

The Lighthouse Weekly Newsletter: December 14, 2022 Censorship at Twitter | Follow the Money at Yale | Government-Induced Inflation

Twitter Files Confirm Censorship of the Great Barrington Declaration Phillip W. Magness and David Waugh (American Institute for Economic Research) New Twitter CEO Elon Musk has released files showing that Twitter and other tech companies intentionally blacklisted, censored, and suppressed the Great Barrington Declaration and its signers in […]

The Great Resignation

On the Coming Standard of Living Crisis RedHawk 8 hr ago “The battle outside ragin’ will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, for the times they are a-changin’.” In 2022, the crisis facing young men has finally gone mainstream. Political pundits from all sides of the […]