Farewell to the Independent newspaper

Sales of British “Independent” paper have slumped from a high of more than 400,000 in 1989 to just over 40,000 today. It has just announced that it will no longer be printed but will go fully digital, yet another casualty of the tech age. A healthy Press, and properly funded investigative reporters, are vital if …

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Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court

I understand that Justice Scalia was good company and personally a nice man. One should never speak ill of the recently dead. However, notwithstanding the eulogies, it is appropriate to comment briefly on his Constitutional views and judgments. This was the man who believed that corporations are people and should be accorded the same rights …

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A silly thing to get upset about

There is a Christian liberal arts college in Illinois called Wheaton College. One of the teachers there, professor of science Larycia Hawkins, an African American, mentioned on her Facebook page that Christians and Moslems worship the same god, and undertook to wear the hijab during Advent in solidarity with American moslems. The last time I …

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