Big Ideas
These stories are conceptual--food for thought.
- When to Doubt a Scientific ‘Consensus’ Jay Richards 03/16/2010
- Anyone who has studied the history of science knows that scientists are not immune to the non-rational dynamics of the herd.
- Two Cheers for American Exceptionalism Joseph Loconte 03/05/2010
- President Obama rejects American exceptionalism in a manner never before seen in an American commander in chief.
- Soul Music Roger Scruton 02/27/2010
- How we describe pop music proves that we find moral significance in music. How do we tell what music we should and should not encourage?
- The Quiet Energy Revolution Max Schulz 02/04/2010
- How ironic that during the ‘drill, baby, drill’ demonstrations as gasoline prices spiked in 2007 and 2008, a silent revolution with natural gas was already underway that will make those concerns largely irrelevant.
- Obama Contra Niebuhr Joseph Loconte 01/14/2010
- Supporters of President Obama’s ‘moral realism’ are unaware of many elements of Reinhold Niebuhr’s political theology.
- The Green Con Job Dustin Chambers and Dan Ervin 01/13/2010
- The U.S. economy is sensitive to high energy prices. An aggressive push toward green power would result in the net loss of millions of jobs. There is a better way forward.
- What Afghanistan Can Learn from Colombia Robert Haddick 01/08/2010
- Ten years ago, Colombia faced a security crisis in many ways worse than the one currently facing Afghanistan.
- The Miser versus the Entrepreneur Jay Richards 12/23/2009
- Why is Ayn Rand so popular today?
- The High Cost of Ignoring Beauty Roger Scruton 12/19/2009
- Architecture clearly illustrates the social, environmental, economic, and aesthetic costs of ignoring beauty. We are being torn out of ourselves by the loud gestures of people who want to seize our attention but give nothing in return.
- Christianity Caused the Crash? Greg Forster 12/11/2009
- A screaming headline in the Atlantic magazine blames Christianity for the recent economic turmoil. In fact, changing economic attitudes among Christians did contribute to the problem—just not in the way the Atlantic believes.