Carbon taxes in Canada: Was Stephane Dion Right?
Former Liberal Party Leader Stephane Dion was an inept politician, but a better policymaker. Global climate change is a complicated study for scientists. Modern climate models evaluate enormous amounts...
View ArticleIs There Still a Place for Social Conservatism?
Traditionalist British thinker Edmund Burke, who might today be described as socially conservative. Social conservatism has been out of favor with Western academics for a long time, but more recently...
View ArticleMinimizing Casualties in the Culture War
The culture war continues to make its effects felt, as last week the CEO of a technology firm lost his job for taking part in the fighting six years ago. Brendan Eich’s departure from Mozilla is in...
View ArticleRethinking Mormons and Porn: Utah 40th in US in New Porn Data
Statistics tell stories, and this is something that Mormons know well. While many demographic indicators speak to the social health of Mormon culture, there are some that do not. A well-known example:...
View ArticleThe decline of marriage norms is hurting the poor
Rising rates of fatherlessness, a culture of promiscuity, and persistently high divorce rates are impoverishing millions of people. While marriage rates remain high in our society’s upper classes, the...
View ArticleNew Study: Gay marriage in Holland may have reduced marriage rates among …...
For decades, conservative opponents of same-sex marriage have been making a brazen claim. Extending marriage rights to gay couples, they say, will weaken the marriage institution. In the near-absence...
View ArticleWhy I am no longer a libertarian
The “libertarian moment” may have finally arrived. An essay about American libertarianism in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine argues that younger voters’ social liberalism, fiscal conservatism and...
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