In the Victorian Era viral illness incited pathological fear exacerbated by the lack of empirical understanding about what germs were or how viruses mutated. In Charles Dickens’ novels, fevers served a narrative function, leading to the victim’s disfigurement, destruction or moral salvation. Writing in The Critic, Natasha Green suggests that our own paranoid fears aren’t so different from our ancestors’.
In City Journal, Mark P. Mills reveals a future for renewable energy…one that depends on oil and natural gas. The narrow-minded “transitionist” rationale, he argues, overlooks the US$5 trillion price tag (in the U.S. alone), the shakeup to industry, mining constraints, the costly overbuild of backup generation, the false analogy of green energy’s scalability, the dubious development of battery storage – and the ultimate impotence of government-imposed “mandates”.
Jim Geraghty in National Review explains why anti-Semitic protesters are becoming more powerful than some U.S. university and college presidents. He submits it is a leadership crisis wherein those with a prestigious title and fancy office are terrified of making and enforcing decisions. Strong leadership, Geraghty ventures, can improve campuses, students – and protestors too.
Charles A. Coulombe, in The European Conservative, reflects on common lies. Chief among them is that European civilization and the white race are responsible for all the evil that now exists. Coulombe profiles the deceitful narratives facing the world today and drives home the criticality of refuting those lies with vigour.
In The Wall Street Journal, Konrad Putzier details the City of St. Louis’s catastrophic “doom loop” of rising crime, fleeing businesses, emptying buildings and worsening decay. The once-vibrant central business district is largely boarded up and the city saw the steepest drop in foot traffic of 66 major North American cities. The halting half-measures Putzier reports on are almost certainly destined to fail.
In City Journal, Mark P. Mills reveals a future for renewable energy…one that depends on oil and natural gas. The narrow-minded “transitionist” rationale, he argues, overlooks the US$5 trillion price tag (in the U.S. alone), the shakeup to industry, mining constraints, the costly overbuild of backup generation, the false analogy of green energy’s scalability, the dubious development of battery storage – and the ultimate impotence of government-imposed “mandates”.
Jim Geraghty in National Review explains why anti-Semitic protesters are becoming more powerful than some U.S. university and college presidents. He submits it is a leadership crisis wherein those with a prestigious title and fancy office are terrified of making and enforcing decisions. Strong leadership, Geraghty ventures, can improve campuses, students – and protestors too.
Charles A. Coulombe, in The European Conservative, reflects on common lies. Chief among them is that European civilization and the white race are responsible for all the evil that now exists. Coulombe profiles the deceitful narratives facing the world today and drives home the criticality of refuting those lies with vigour.
In The Wall Street Journal, Konrad Putzier details the City of St. Louis’s catastrophic “doom loop” of rising crime, fleeing businesses, emptying buildings and worsening decay. The once-vibrant central business district is largely boarded up and the city saw the steepest drop in foot traffic of 66 major North American cities. The halting half-measures Putzier reports on are almost certainly destined to fail.
