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Remembering Ben Franklin’s forgotten essay on America’s population boom

This Fourth of July weekend, it’s worth remembering one of the earliest significant contributions Americans made to global intellectual debate, pointing out the value of the American experience and how it has opened up new perspectives. Benjamin Franklin wrote the Declaration of Independence, first drafted in 1751, 21 years before he signed it.Observations on the […]

An Essay Inspired by the Happy News that the Human Population Has Reached Eight Billion

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes The late, great Julian SimonJulian Simon spent decades battling intellectually against biologists and zoologists who were convinced that human population growth, if governments did not hold it in check with draconian measures, would spell doom for multitudes of humans. (I might as well have used the present tense above, because […]

An Easter Essay: Why Did Jesus Come?

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes As we approach Easter, we might ask ourselves what is its real meaning? Is it about Easter egg hunts and cute bunnies or is it more than that? Nowhere else do we celebrate two events each year focusing our attention on one person, Jesus. The first event is Christmas. The […]

‘Historic Mistake’: New York Times Guest Essay Rips Bragg’s Trump Prosecution

A guest essay published by The New York Times on Tuesday called Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s criminal case against former President Donald Trump a “historic mistake.” Jed Handelsman Sugarman, a law professor at Boston University, said: claimed Prosecutors’ claim that President Trump committed a “criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election” is an […]