Instapundit mentioned this book the other day: How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth.  From the Amazon description: What would it take to make this world a paradise? Tackling the momentous question of how individuals can envision and enact positive change, this collection of 101 essays from some of today’s most notable thinkers, leaders, artists, and writers focuses on the More …

As I get older, I believe less and less in the pendulum theory of history: that things swing in one direction for a while, then they go too far and they turn around and swing the other way.  Maybe things just swing one way, forever. But then again… In fact, on some measures, the data suggest that these so-called millennials More …