“When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.”  Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993)       Read more

    http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/442900/godspeed-john-glenn   His was a titanic name when I was a boy.  And now the last of the Mercury 7 astronauts is gone.  It’s the passing of an era.   “Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit... Read more

    Alas, we’re not ranked Number One.  But Brigham Young University is keeping pretty good company these days, just behind Duke University and Johns Hopkins University and just ahead of the universities of Munich and Edinburgh:   https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/best-universities-graduate-jobs-global-university-employability-ranking-2016   “Education,” said Brigham Young, “is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.”     Read more

    A discovery just off the Mediterranean coast of Israel at Tel Dor, roughly twenty miles south of Haifa:   http://www.timesofisrael.com/rare-find-reveals-previously-unknown-roman-ruler-in-judea/   And here are some finds from Caesarea Maritima, somewhat further to the south:   http://www.archaeology.org/issues/227-1609/trenches/4739-trenches-israel-caesarea-roman-figurines     Caesarea Marítima will be the first stop on the first full day of our Israel tour in May, as we drive northward from Tel Aviv.     Read more

    I had a lot of fun writing this vicious, mean-spirited, deeply deceitful, arrogant, slanderous, and anti-intellectual Editor’s Introduction for the old FARMS Review of Books back in 1997.     Read more

    This is a fascinating story from 2005, brought to my attention on Facebook by “Larry Adores-Brenda Farris”:   https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/feb/19/science.sciencenews   So far, the most information that I’ve found about the sequel is in the relevant German Wikipedia article.     Read more

    So much for la liberté:   “French Senate Bans Posting of Pro-Life Information Online”     Read more

    There are two great days in a person’s life — the day we are born and the day we discover why.  William Barclay   Read more

    Three conservatives react to what the Carrier deal and related matters are confirming about the likely economic views of the man whom a plurality of American voters recently elected president:   Kevin D. Williamson, “Trump the Progressive: The Managers versus the Markets”   Ian Tuttle, “The Folly of Trump’s Command Economy”   George F. Will, “Trump Says Goodbye to Free-Market Economics”   Kevin D. Williamson, “We Do Not Have a Trade Deficit”     Read more

    Every single week, every Thursday for something like six years now, the Deseret News has been aiding and abetting in the publication of these columns:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865668825/Judge-Joseph-Smith-and-the-legal-status-of-women.html   It’s shameful, really.     Read more