According to the U.S. government’s Energy Information Agency, California actually has installed electricity generation capacity of almost 76 GW. That sounds like wildly more than you would ever need. But the problem is that of the 76 GW of capacity, some 27 GW is solar, and 6 GW is wind. In August the solar goes…
Why a Generation of Girls Is Fleeing Womanhood
AUGUST 10, 2020BY JEAN C. LLOYD These issues hit home for me in a very deep way. At fifteen, I was hurting from childhood sexual abuse, same-sex attracted, and donning a tux for my high school dance. If transgenderism had been the “craze” of my day, I could easily have gone down the path of my own…
Against History-as-Nightmare
https://lawliberty.org/against-history-as-nightmare/ The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon
The COVID Coup
Worst of all, these authorities, these experts, transferred elderly persons known to be infected with the virus into nursing homes. In Michigan, the authorities even assigned to a nursing home an aide known to be infected with the virus. As a result, the as-yet fully uncounted deaths in these facilities, which house about 1.3 million people…
Growth Without Virtue
https://americanmind.org/features/the-coronacrisis-and-our-future-discontents/growth-without-virtue/ Fortunately, as the coronavirus meticulously interrupts all aspects of daily life, many regular citizens are beginning to question the wisdom of our current economic arrangement. In quarantined cities, households are beginning to reorganize themselves along traditional lines, even reviving the cottage industries to produce masks and sanitizer. Telecommuters may not want to return to…
This Election Is a Choice between Freedom and Slavery, Good and Evil
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/08/this_election_is_a_choice_between_freedom_and_slavery_good_and_evil.html If it feels as though we’re surrounded, that’s because we are. For freedom-minded Americans, this is an unnerving time. But that’s exactly the way it’s always been. As inspiring as Reagan’s words are, they leave out the chilling context that Lord Acton’s provide: “At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been…
The Pandemic and Practical Wisdom
The dirty little secret of expertise—and of the modern era—is that we expect expertise to rescue us from our disagreements about the good life. We hope that an expanding economic pie (made possible by economic analysis), lengthening lifetimes (promoted by medical science), and expanding liberties will make tradeoffs unnecessary, or at least less urgent. Even…
Patriotism vs. Multiculturalism
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/patriotism-vs-multiculturalism/ by Thomas D. KlingensteinAllen C. GuelzoRoger KimballDavid AzerradMatthew Continetti When he leaves office, whenever that is, we need a more traditional statesman, someone who sees Trump’s value but also his limitations—like Trump, a red-blooded American patriot who has the courage to stand up to the times, but unlike Trump, someone who can articulate the nature…