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Being wrong means never having to say 'sorry'

It's so easy and comfortable being a liberal. You never have to admit you're wrong when you're demonstrably wrong. Neither do you have to be concerned with lack of support, because the liberal establishment - from the news media to your fellow Democrats, academia, "science" and Hollywood ...

The Founding Fathers would've gotten rid of Trump long ago

In 1788, Virginia convened a convention to debate ratification of the new U.S. Constitution, promulgated in Philadelphia the year before. The pardon power proved to be a sticking point for some delegates. George Mason, the primary author of Virginia's own constitution, was among those ...

What you pay attention to and what you remember

The simplest way to state the relationship between attention and memory is that you can’t remember something that you haven't paid attention to in the first place. What is attention? Attention is a filter. When attention is working, and you are surrounded by all the sights, sounds, and ...

A Message to Recent Grads Facing an AI-Affected Job Market

As 2026 college graduates prepare for the next chapter of their lives, the news on the job market front is kind of mixed. Those going to graduate school full time may be a little relieved that they are not entering the workforce just yet, but a report from the National Association of Colleges ...

Our screen culture increasingly can't read

We've been having a debate about "book bans" in recent years, but given the steep decline in student literacy, the deeper question is how anyone would notice whether a book is available in a school library or not. The New York Times published an eye-opening report on a study by the ...

Going Dutch

You might think that a town with a name like Orange City would have vast orchards of citrus trees, but you would be mistaken. So much for truth in advertising! This isn’t terribly surprising given that Orange City is in northwestern Iowa, far from the citrus-growing region. But Orange City ...