Jon Guze

That was Chuck Yeager’s response to the suggestion that Neil Armstrong would have approved of the decision to omit a key scene from a new film about his life — the moment when he planted the American flag on the surface of the moon.

In a recent piece at Quillette, William Ray provides a fascinating discussion of the origin and implications of the left’s current obsession with “white privilege.” Ray begins by noting: The concept of ‘white privilege’ was popularized by Peggy McIntosh in a 1989 paper written at Harvard…

Today’s progressives would prefer not to talk about it, but it’s a fact that many of the policies that progressives promoted during the first half of the 20th century were racially discrimatory both by design and in effect. Many of those policies are still in place, and, as legal…

The town council made the change in response to a lawsuit filed by a group of food truck operators who were represented by the Institute for Justice. From the IJ press release: Last night, after an extended meeting behind closed doors, the Carolina Beach town council repealed…

Sorry about the late notice, but a conference with that name took place today in Durham. The host was an organization called Defend Durham. It doesn’t seem to have a website, but here’s what an anonymous member had to say about it at the “antifascist” website, ItsGoingDown:…

According to a new Zillow report: Although construction rates have been steadily rising – with June new home sales up 2.4 percent from a year ago – the U.S. is still building fewer single-family homes on a per capita basis than it did historically.

In Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, Duke University historian Nancy MacLean attempts to smear James Buchanan and other public-choice economists as racist authoritarians who, with financial support from the nefarious Koch brothers, conspired to deliver America into the hands of a cabal of…

That’s the conclusion of a paper called, “The effects of housing supply restrictions on partisan geography,” that appears in the September edition of Political Geography. It’s important to note that, according to the study, this is not a case of emerging Democratic majorities demanding stricter zoning regulations; it’s…