The freethinker has always been a rare individual. A seeker of truth above all else, he initially embraces all the world has to offer. He gives all ideas careful consideration before adopting those he considers right for himself and discarding those he deems wrong…

The words “diversity” and “multiculturalism” are sacrosanct in contemporary American society. They are often spoken of as though the concepts themselves have intrinsic value, as though “diverse” equals “good.” Unfortunately, the path to hell is paved with good intentions as they say…

Repealing the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy would prove disastrous to the military’s cohesion and already diminished effectiveness. The argument that the resistance to allowing open homosexuals to serve in the military is merely based on prejudices and irrational fears is misleading…

I’m a former U.S. Army paratrooper and veteran of the Afghan War who believes there is rot at the core of the American war-machine. This decay has its unconscious cause in the American people themselves. Our military is and can only be a reflection of our society…

In the late 1980s, Japan seemed poised to supplant the U.S. as the world’s largest economy, but today the “Land of the Rising Sun” is no longer discussed with a mix of fear and envy on the world stage. While corruption and overvalued currency played a role in slowing an economy once described as “miraculous…

In his 2004 novel “State of Fear,” the late author Michael Crichton observed that our institutions of higher learning, where young people were once safe to explore a variety of sometimes unconventional and even radical ideas, have in recent decades quietly come to fulfill a very different role…

A school girl is arrested for “hate speech” in Britian when she complains that she can not understand her Urdu-speaking classmates. The Danish government and press wilt under pressure from Islamic groups over a series of newspaper cartoons. Conversely, the French enact a law…