Space remains the final frontier. Just as with the terrestrial frontier, private enterprise should be the driving force for exploration, development, and settlement.

This semester, millions of college students are unfortunately going to face a test that is far more important than any exam, assignment, or project that they will ever get in any of their classes. This is the test of self-governance. Are they capable of governing themselves and acting responsibly? Or do they still require a guiding hand to tell them what to do? We believe college students deserve a chance to try.

Please ask yourself in your relative comfort just how deep your corona-religion is? Is it so deep that you’ll continue to turn a blind eye to the global suffering that’s taking place so that you can feel safe from a virus that thankfully kills so few? The lives of hundreds of millions of innocent people with exponentially less than you hang on your level of alarmism, and the strange joy you derive from being told what to do.

The existence of a large civility gap would have enormous implications. Consider the issue of election integrity. If one side cheats a lot more than the other, then what will happen when the opportunities for cheating increase fivefold, or tenfold, or twentyfold?

We really must insist on a society where multiple opinions, including political opinions, are allowed and respected. The alternative is tyranny.

Innovation, except for COVID-related stuff, is now at a low ebb and may never rebound if the crisis lasts long enough to change cultural values.

. All of Carnegie’s insights derive from the fact that other people have the right to say “no” to your offer. You must, therefore, persuade them that you can and will actually make their lives better.

The authors ask the right question: has this experiment in government-managed virus control and suppression made a difference?

We think of social media with its inescapable cacophony as a force dividing us. But the problem is our assumption that “united” means “doing and thinking the same thing.”

One wonders why we need to elect politicians at all if they will simply defer to “the” scientists. Ah, but there be the rub. Which scientists? They don’t agree on much, especially when it comes to the novel coronavirus and masks and such.