Classified Security
Kerby AndersonKerby Anderson My commentary ten weeks ago on classified documents focused on the government’s problem of over-classification. The US government creates approximately 50 million classified documents each year. One expert…
School Choice Resonates
Penna DexterPenna Dexter School choice: an idea whose time has come. Finally. It took Covid school closures that lasted way too long. Students lost ground in reading and, to a greater…
Good Guys with Guns
Kerby Anderson Mercedes Perez crashed her car into another car on a street in San Antonio. She then jumped out with her gun blazing away at neighbors who came out…
Climate Change Graphs
Kerby Anderson “The global discussion about climate change has become quite hysterical.” That is how Bjørn Lomborg begins his commentary on “Life after Climate Change.” He has always said that…
National Conversation
Kerby Anderson One of the standard clichés surfacing these days when a controversial topic is mentioned, is that we need to have a national conversation about (fill in the blank).…
America’s Cities
Kerby Anderson What is the future of America’s cities? The question is relevant because of a recent election and a recent article. Two weeks ago today, Chicago voters elected Brandon…
De-Dollarization
Kerby Anderson The US dollar has been the reserve currency of the world since the Bretton Woods agreement in 1944. The dollar has been the currency of international trade and…
Destroying Ourselves
Penna Dexter A recent poll by The Wall Street Journal and NORC, at the University of Chicago, reveals that some of the core values that have traditionally united Americans are…
Digital Surveillance
Kerby Anderson Americans are being watched digitally, and it doesn’t seem to matter whether they are innocent citizens, suspects, or criminals. That is the argument made in the brief filed…
Paper-Hanger Argument
Kerby Anderson Critical thinking is going to be more important in this age of confused thinking and logical fallacies. Kevin Williamson talked about what he called the “one-armed paper-hangers” argument.…