The Classic Car Show in downtown Hastings, Minnesota, is a summer tradition. Every third Sunday from May through September, cars and trucks manufactured before 1985 (a few years after I was born, so I can refer to myself not as…
Anything new about religion stirring up controversy? Not since Cain took exception to Abel’s sacrifice. Don’t take this as an assault on traditional religions. It addresses all religions, because everyone has a religion. Every person must act without complete knowledge….
Populist conservatives have made their peace with big government and seem to spend their time these days fighting symbolic culture-war battles over such silliness as drag shows. Many of their “solutions” involve owning the libs by harnessing state power on…
Hong Kong is seeking to recover its leading financial role on the global stage. The last few years — filled with angry demonstrations, draconian COVID rules, and brutal Chinese repression — have not been good to the traditional economic hub….
There is a probably apocryphal anecdote about the two greatest authors of French literature, who just happened to be close friends. Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas were strolling by the Seine River one day in 1865, when the bells of…
It’s hard not to binge read a Dean Koontz novel. Koontz’s prose is beyond tight. His suspenseful plots hurl readers headlong into raucous adventures in which the stakes for his protagonists are extreme and, for humanity, often dire. His heroes…
In one of his most moving speeches, President Ronald Reagan declared: “Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for…
With Roe v. Wade apparently teetering at the legal brink, the Libertarian Party (LP) has dropped its pro-abortion stance. Backers of the measure, members of the Mises Caucus, who seized control from the LP old guard, said they intended to eliminate a…
Kurt Vonnegut’s 1961 short story “Harrison Bergeron” stands apart as one of dystopian literature’s most poignant works, making up for its brevity in striking social commentary. The tale is set in the United States, year 2081. The newly ratified 211th,…
