By Selwyn Duke
I’d appreciate a viable alternative energy source as much as anyone else. After all, who wouldn’t like to run his car for a third or fourth the cost? I don’t have much confidence in government schemes to develop those new sources, however, and the May 12 edition of The Wall Street Journal helps to illustrate why.
By Selwyn Duke
To paraphrase that great man of letters, G.K. Chesterton, “There will
come a time when people consider smoking a cigar to be more offensive
than abortion.” Given that the jolly philosopher left us for the
ethereal typewriter in the sky in 1936, it’s amazing how prescient he
was.
By Selwyn Duke
Going to college has become a rite of passage. Like a high school
diploma, it’s now often expected that a student will go on to earn — or
should I say "get" — a bachelor’s degree. After all, this is how we
increase our earning potential, right?
By Selwyn Duke
In his book The
Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud said of religion and morality,
“It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to
leave God out altogether and admit the purely human origins of all the precepts
and regulations of civilization.”
In making this statement, Freud weighed in on one of
life’s most important questions: What is the nature of right and wrong? Is it real, something existing apart from
man, a reflection of Absolute Truth, of God’s will? Or is it, in accordance with the atheist
model, merely a product of mortal minds and thus synonymous with consensus opinion? Freud made it clear he believed the latter.
By Selwyn Duke
The director of economic policy studies at the Hudson Institute, Irwin Stelzer, has penned a very interesting article called "It’s a myth that the world’s oil is running out." As the title indicates, Stelzer puts forth the thesis that the Earth contains enough accessible oil to last for generations. Moreover, he says that when these ample fuel resources are not exploited, it’s only due to factors such as politics, bad economic decisions and war. And he provides several examples of nations in which this is the case, such as:
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