Is There a Voice in Your Head While You’re Reading? 

Do you “subvocalize” – silently pronounce the words you are reading? I don’t think I do, but some brain scientists say we all have this habit. And some claim that we can increase our reading speed if we suppress it. Click here.

Should We Learn Outdated History? 

It’s not just the living who are being made to disappear. Historical figures long dead are targets now. Here’s a thoughtful essay on the Christopher Columbus question.

How America’s Accurate Election Polls Were Covered

Matt Taibbi has been writing engagingly about federal bureaucracy and corruption since he was one of three journalists given access to the “X files.” Here, he provides an entertaining insight into one of the many ways and reasons the pollsters were so wrong (once again) about the outcome of presidential elections.

Immigration Is a Mess… Here’s How to Fix It

In this piece published last month in The Free Press, Reihan Salam lays out what he believes is a sensible “road map for making immigration great again.” I thought some of it was spot on, and some of it sounded like lukewarm global governance doctrine. Read it and decide for yourself.