Campus Danger
Kerby Anderson College students have been convinced they face danger everywhere. A comment becomes a microaggression. A name on a university building is a link to the country’s racist past. But the gr...
American Difference
Kerby Anderson As I have been out speaking, one question surfaces with some regularity. People wonder if what happened to the truckers in Canada could happen to citizens in the US. I always acknowledg...
Doctor Biden
Penna Dexter State of the Union addresses remind me of how often governments get involved in matters that, in a market economy, are not their business. It’s a big country. We have companies and profes...
Economic Warfare
Kerby Anderson Jeffrey Tucker reminds us in an essay that talking about economic warfare last year would be quickly labeled a conspiracy theory. Events in Canada changed that. One crowdfunding platfo...
Chesterton’s Fence
Kerby Anderson Over the last 15 years of doing this commentary, I occasionally use the famous quote from G. K. Chesterton; “Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.” A corollary...
Inflation Deflection
Kerby Anderson Ask a politician or government official a serious question, and you are likely to get deflection that includes changing the subject. Sometimes you get what commentators describe as a “w...
Great Reset
Kerby Anderson Is the idea of “The Great Reset” merely a conspiracy theory? That seems unlikely given the fact that if you type in those three words in a search engine, you will find more than 900 mil...
Abigail’s Courage
Penna Dexter Like many of the Canadian truckers, author Abigail Shrier never set out to make anyone angry and certainly not to become the center of controversy. To do that, she told an audience of Pri...
Digital Authoritarianism
Kerby Anderson Not so long ago, authoritarian leaders who wanted to extend their power and reduce the freedom of their citizens had to resort to force. State police were directed to round up political...
Panopticon
Kerby Anderson Let me introduce you to a word that is probably new to you but will probably be used much more in the future. Decades ago, when I talked about concepts like “secular humanism” or the “N...
Inflation Ambivalence
Kerby Anderson Americans say they hate inflation. But many really like inflation, or at least like the impact inflation has on their home values and other assets. We shouldn’t be surprised at this am...
