Ryan Turnipseed Ryan Turnipseed is an undergraduate in economics and entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. There, he is the secretary and lecture chair for the Free Enterprise Society. Ryan is also the treasurer and a co-founder of the Old Glory Club mises.org Every mainstream school curriculum and state
Ronald Stein Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. cfact.org Worldwide crude oil consumption is currently estimated at roughly 96.5 million barrels per day. According to OPEC, global demand is
Co-leader of the Greens, Marama Davidson, described herself as a ‘peace activist’ before launching into a speech filled with anti-Israel rhetoric. She also repeated her self-titled ‘peace activist’ throughout. […] with multiple examples of inaccurate allegations being claimed, along with saturating her allegations with apparently unironic usages of
Alan Lash Alan Lash is a software developer from Northern California, with a masters degree physics and a PhD in mathematics. brownstone.org Renewed calls for mask mandates are on the rise, as reports of scary Covid variants are making their way through the news. My perception is that most
The Holy Grail: it’s, well, the Holy Grail. The cup supposedly used by Christ at the Last Supper has long been the archetype of the quest-object in Western literature and religion. Much of the Arthurian mythos revolves around the knights’ search for the sacred object. More recently, it’
Yaakov Kirschen Another Brooklyn boy. Born March 8, 1938. Graduated from Queens College 1961. Wrote and drew funny cards for Norcross. After dismissal for loudness and jocular attitude became a freelance gag cartoonist for the former Mad Mag guys who were then doing Cracked. Moved on to doing cartoons for
Harry Palmer When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already… What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time, they will know nothing else but this
The social media platform X is awash with daily posts claiming Israel is targeting Palestinian civilians in its war on Hamas, despite daily assurances from the IDF that Israel is doing its best to avoid killing and injuring civilians whilst fulfilling its promise to Israeli citizens to annihilate Hamas to
Science, no matter what the media and activists might screech at you, is never settled. In fact, it’s the essential nature of science that it must be subject to change. Often dramatic. Consider the paradigm shift of quantum physics in the early 20th century: suddenly a deterministic universe became
Our next guest grew up on the West Bank where his father was a founding member of Hamas. He was groomed to take a senior role before he turned on the terrorist group in prison. Spying for Israel now, converting to Christianity and ultimately seeking asylum in the US, Mosab
What is it with humans and dicks? Freud was famously obsessed with phallic symbols. Urban warriors paint dicks on potholes to force councils to repair them. There’s a whole doodling board game dedicated to, well, drawing doodles on dicks. The Australian Electoral Commission has even confirmed that drawing a
Rick Mac I’m sure that there are many readers out there, who, like me, are utterly appalled at the obscene and repulsive antisemitic behavior that we are witnessing in the streets of many Western cities today. Swastikas displayed. Nazi salutes given. Chants of “Gas the Jews” and “F**k
Ben McCann Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide mercatornet.com On October 16 1923, brothers Walt and Roy set up a modest cartoon studio. Their goal was to produce short animated films. They created a new character: a mouse, with large ears. Named “Mickey”, he soon
Amanda Reilly Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington theconversation.com When Wellington carpenter Samuel Parnell began the struggle for an eight-hour working day back in 1840, he could have never foreseen how modern work culture would evolve. But he would no doubt empathise with the challenges faced by
Andrew Lowenthal Andrew Lowenthal is a Brownstone Institute fellow and co-founder and former executive director of EngageMedia, an Asia-Pacific digital rights, open and secure technology, and documentary non-profit, and a former fellow of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and MIT’s Open Documentary
