“Do you hear the grasshopper that is at your feet?”
By David Churchill Barrow
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Which Technologies Are Most and Least Likely to Change Manufacturing?
By Tamara Wilhite
Whether you’re watching Shark Tank or reading a crowdfunding campaign, the term “revolutionary” gets tossed around quite a bit. I like Peter Drucker’s definition of revolutionary: the true revolution is when technology or processes from a totally different sector overturn a market, such as genetics upending medicine or the internet altering everything from social interactions to looking up information.
There are four technologies often cited as certain to dramatically alter manufacturing: the Internet of Things, machine learning, artificial intelligence and 3D printing.
The Greatest Conservative Films: Kill Bill (2003 & 2004)
By Eric M. Blake
Editor’s Note: In April of 2017 writer Eric M. Blake began a series at Western Free Press naming the “Greatest Conservative Films.” The introduction explaining the rules and indexing all films included in the series can be found here. Liberty Island will feature cross-posts of select essays from the series with the aim of encouraging discussion at this cross-roads of cinematic art with political ideology. (Click here to see the original essay. Check out the previously cross-posted entries on Jackie Brown, Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Unforgiven, Hail, Caesar!, Apocalypse Now, Fight Club, Man of Steel, Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice ULTIMATE EDITION, and Wonder Woman.) If you would like join this dialogue please contact us at submissions [@] libertyislandmag.com.
‘I don’t feel smart enough right now to be a prophet.’ – Mad Jones…
By Quin Hillyer
Check out today’s excerpts from all three volumes of Quin Hillyer’s Accidental Prophet trilogy and buy them on Amazon: Mad Jones, Heretic, Mad Jones, Hero, and Mad Jones, Agonistes.
The Essential Author Series Revival
By David M. Swindle
We’re re-launching the series as a new weekly feature of short blog posts highlighting useful fiction authors and non-fiction cultural writers.
Scene & Sequel: Thickening the Plot
Part 11 In an Ongoing Series
By Jamie K. Wilson
Welcome to this series on how to write fiction from a conservative point of view. These posts can simply be read, or you are invited to join a guided writer’s workshop to practice and critique with other writers. To join the workshop, please email me, Jamie, at kywrite at gmail.com and request an invitation.
PreTeena: August 27 – September 2, 2018
Sunday Comics!
By Allison Barrows
You won’t want to miss these hilarious cartoons depicting the ups and downs of adolescence. Now each week’s strips will debut on Sundays as the lead strip of Liberty Island’s Sunday Comics feature. If you draw a comic and would like to have your work featured on Sundays, please contact us: [email protected] Check out Allison Barrows’ new PreTeena blog here.
There Is a Free Lunch After All…
By Audie Cockings
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