As most of the world’s “liberal” democracies continue to embrace more ruinous censorship, war, crippling inflation, crushing debt, and rising crime, many who pine for a different type of political order understandably look to regime types other than the modern democratic state. In some cases, monarchy is offered as an alternative.
“Keynes was not a democrat, but, rather, looked upon himself as a potential member of an enlightened ruling elite.”—James Buchanan and Richard Wagner (1977)
Last year, Ron DeSantis banned the sale of lab grown meat in Florida, and Texas, Alabama, and Mississippi have now followed suit. Two arguments form the main basis for the ban: 1) the need to protect American animal agriculture from undercutting; and, 2) cultivated meat itself being immoral due to its unnaturalness. Both fail. American animal agriculture must not necessarily survive and the unnaturalness of lab grown meat is no more immoral than the existence of GMO vegetables (i.e., not at all).
On Monday, the long-rumored deal was made official as Paramount bought the online media outlet The Free Press and named its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News.
Sometime in 2026 a NASA project called Artemis II will send four astronauts to the moon and back. Unlike the Apollo missions of the past century, the Artemis crew will be diverse in gender and race.
Israel has received over $21 billion in military aid from the US and Washington has bombed Iran and Yemen for Tel Aviv.
The verification process for 3.6 million voters must be completed before the February 18 statewide primary election.
When Frank Meyer described Abraham Lincoln in National Review shortly after the centenary of his death as the purveyor of “an authoritarianism that was, in terms of civil liberties, the most ruthless in American history,” he left colleagues and readers stunned. Editor-in-chief William F. Buckley, Jr., for one, wrote that the “Books in Brief” review by his senior editor “comes close to blasphemy.”
