By now most of us have heard of the absurd “classical” school in Florida which fired their third principal in as many years for the crime of allowing students in an art class to see a photo…

One of my privileges in life was to come to know and be friends with Dr. Nathaniel Branden (1930–2014), considered by many to be the father of the self-esteem movement. I spent time listening to him lecture in person and on video, and spent hours in discussion in his home…

One of the differences, I think, between the old classical liberals and modern libertarians is too many libertarians have tried to divorce the case for liberty from the larger framework in which old liberals saw the world. The classical liberal case for liberty wasn’t value-free. …

Over the years I’ve come across various forms of the same argument mostly from the same sort of people: evangelicals or conservative Christians. They will come along and argue homosexuality ought to be illegal, that censorship should be imposed by the state to keep sexual material illegal, abortion should be…

Paul Ehrlich has spent most of his adult life claiming the world is ending, birth rates are skyrocketing, populations are exploding, famine is around the corner and we’re running out of everything. Thankfully he’s been largely wrong but refuses to admit it. …

Florida’s authoritarian Governor, Ron DeSantis, is running around sucking up to police unions. He envisions a world where he runs everything — including Disney and the care of transgender kids — and the police are free to crack heads in his name. All the issues that made Trump a disaster…

Mississippi, a state that tends to be at the bottom of every index of states — where bottom is not good — passed a misnamed Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Like most government legislation, the name has nothing to do with its actual intent. In effect, it says laws that treat…

In a rambling mishmash of verbal crap Dennis Prager said: “I have zero romanticization of children. Children are among the meanest creatures on earth. …

A new law being proposed by ordained preacher Rep. Steve Toth, of the Evangelical Taliban known as the Republican Party, says, “A child born with a Y chromosome must be classified as male and a child born without a Y chromosome must be classified as female.” …