How Often Do Citizens Use Guns to Stop Violence?
By James D. Agresti In a New York Times column entitled “How to Reduce Shootings,” Nicholas...
The crisis of integrity-deficient science
Falsifying or ignoring data that don’t support conclusions or agendas is worse than junk science!...
Myths about School Choice and Betsy DeVos
By James D. Agresti In an op-ed for the New York Times, U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan...
In Uber-less Austin, People Are Using Facebook to Find Rides
Something unsurprising but very interesting is happening in Austin, Texas. Last month, voters in...
Poll Reveals U.S. Voters are Uninformed About Major Issues
By James D. Agresti What do voters truly understand about policy issues that have major impacts on...
More outrages and insanities in Paris
If alarmists get what they want at the climate gabfest, the consequences will be disastrous Paul Driessen The U.S. Senate will not approve or appropriate money for anything President Obama might agree to in Paris, and developing countries will not (and should not)...
Terrorism and a cold winter refugee crisis
A brutal cold spell could kill refugees. This is the climate issue Paris delegates must discuss. Paul Driessen and Joe D’Aleo Even after the latest Paris massacres – and previous radical Islamist atrocities in the USA, France, Britain, Canada, Spain, India, Iraq,...
How Machiavelli’s World Shaped Our Own
How Machiavelli's World Shaped Our Own June 21, 2015 | 12:59 GMT A statue of Italian statesman, philosopher and writer Niccolo Machiavelli, circa 1500. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Analysis The world in which Florentine statesman Niccolo Machiavelli lived scarcely...
Snowpiercer – The Most Political Film of 2014
Snowpiercer is the most political film of 2014. And likely to be one of the most misunderstood. Snowpiercer is also very weird, which you’d probably expect from a South Korean sci-fi post-apocalyptic action film based on a French graphic novel that stars Chris Evans...
Odyssey of a Liberal – Beginnings
BEGINNINGS Temple and I were both born under our different stars just before the turn of the century, he on June 10, 1895, and I on January 23, 1898, at Number I Kings Bench Walk in the Temple, London. It was exceptional, if not unique, for married couples, much less...