Monthly Archives: February 2012

February 27, 2012

As the elderly population is exploding across the country, so too in prisons, where dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are on the rise. Who’s to care for them? Fellow inmates serving life terms.

Posted in Uncategorized

On behalf of the Hungarian Government, Dr. Zoltán Kovács sent the AI a reply to Francis Fukuyama’s “What’s Wrong with Hungary?” Dr. Kovács’s letter occasioned a few thoughts on public communications from Andras Simonyi, the Hungarian Ambassador to the United States from … Continue reading →

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February 21, 2012

John Gray explains why he thinks the world’s traditional religions will be alive and well when evangelical atheism is dead and long forgotten.

Posted in Religion

February 20, 2012

John Glenn recently reunited with the Mercury workers who helped launch him into orbit fifty years ago today.

Posted in Science, Technology

February 16, 2012

Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, U.S. policy has been in deep confusion on the question of state sovereignty—when we should violate it, and when we shouldn’t.

Posted in Foreign Policy

February 15, 2012

In spite of the recession (or perhaps because of it), online dating is a thriving, billion-dollar industry. Too bad the fancy algorithms and “expert” profile-matching are so much snake oil.

Posted in Culture

February 8, 2012

Establishing a fund to “help small businesses” may sound good, but a cheaper idea is easing the fees and regulations that saddle even aspiring ice-cream shop owners with crushing debt and years-long delays before opening their doors.

Posted in Domestic Policy, Economics

February 7, 2012

How lard-loving chef Paula Deen’s recent diabetes diagnosis and a European recall of dangerous breast implants show that neither the government nor the free market alone can fix health care.

Posted in Heath Care

February 6, 2012

We like to think of Charles Dickens as an genius of invention; he might have protested that he was rather a genius of observation. What might he have noticed about our own hard times today?

Posted in Arts & Literature

February 3, 2012

Debunking The Atlantic‘s alarmism over genetically modified foods.

Posted in Science