Modern nation states have developed an impressive symbolic innovation to memorialize their war dead, the tomb of the unknown soldier: “No more arresting emblems of the modern culture of nationalism exist than cenotaphs and tombs of Unknown Soldiers. The public...
The historian of reason Mark Ajita once described college as the place where young people go into massive debt and enslave their future selves so “they can go there and read books about how it shouldn’t be this way.” Never has this been more apparent than this spring...
There was a time when one would have to wait for a theatrically released movie to appear on television before it could be seen again. Only certain movies would be available and then often edited for run time and censorship concerns. Then came the video tape and movie...
Ukraine’s newest conscription law went into effect on Saturday, raising concerns that the country will be unable to fill critical industrial jobs. The law increases the number of men who can be conscripted and requires all males to take additional registration steps. ...
It seems as if hardly a week goes by that we don’t hear about some celebrity or industrialist saying that he doesn’t intend to leave his fortune to his children. There is a widespread belief in the Anglophone world that inheriting money will make children lazy and...
A person's right to defend themself is sacred. It is only through the arbitrary magic of government that we create a set of standards that determine what a person is allowed to do in the moments of frightful violence. In Australia, for example, government arbitration...
Jeffery Tyler Syck, assistant professor of political science at the University of Pikeville, is the latest conservative to urge the right to abandon—or at least modify—its commitment to free markets and constitutionally-limited government. In an article for The...
On April 23, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill that included foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan along with a ban on TikTok. The next day, President Joe Biden signed the bill into effect, giving Byte Dance nine months to sell the app to an American...
