Affirmative action was established to bring equality in schools and the workplace to those who have been historically excluded. The advent of affirmative action in the 1960s was beneficial in creating equal opportunity for minority groups. However, in contemporary society, affirmative action is transposing discrimination from one group onto another.

Explaining why he is moving his influential investment firm from the Silicon Valley, entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel says it’s one thing for a culture to be “quite liberal” and another for it to be “totalitarian.”

There are so many things to lament about the modern world – fracturing families, the rise of authoritarianism, the rage for torn jeans — but there is also much to celebrate and savor. One is the abundance of great conversation available through podcasts. There’s my own, of course, Need to Know, and then there is the master.