CULTURE
“See For Yourself”
The ability to see clearly—to form your own hypothesis about what’s actually in front of you, independent of what you’ve been told to expect—is the foundation of everything else in this book.
Philosophical Malpractice: January 6th and the Closed Room
A mind operating from prior conclusions does not go looking for evidence that might challenge them. It looks for evidence that confirms, and mistakes the confirmation for proof.
Educational Freedom and a Brighter Future for Every Child
In the report, I examine various program designs—ESAs, tax-credit ESAs, refundable tax credits, and the long-proposed but untried Universal Tuition Tax Credit.
Andrew Bernstein’s The Capitalist Manifesto
Andrew Bernstein’s book is “among the best single presentations of the case for capitalism. (It is) amazingly good.” – Harry Binswanger
The Campaign Against ICE
On the methods and purposes of the Democrat campaign of violence against U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The Story of the Victorian-Era Anti-Mandate Movement
The Leicester Anti-Vaccination League of the 1870s and 1880s England was one of the more effective anti-vaccine mandate movements in Western history. It rose up in response to the Vaccination Act of 1867 as passed by Parliament in compliance with intense industry lobbying and the familiar graft.
The Sinister Machine of Compassion
The distance between Canada’s savings projections for euthanasia across an aging population and Xinjiang’s harvesting is not moral. It is procedural.
The Radio Priest Is Back with a Podcast
Tucker Carlson did not arrive at “this is Israel’s war” through serious engagement with American foreign policy. He arrived there because the audience that would reward him for saying it became larger than the audience that would punish him. He read the room. He adjusted the message.
Forward to “3/11 Viral Takeover: On March 11, 2020, a Pandemic was Declared and Our World Changed Forever” by Sonia Elijah
Every lover of freedom and civilization owes Elijah a deep debt of gratitude for the scrupulous attention to detail she has provided and the personal discipline it took to complete this book.
The Easter Masquerade: Why Religion Must Clash with Science
Religion’s alleged harmony with science is a fraudulent masquerade, extending only insofar as religious dogmas are not called into question.
How “Effective Altruism” Turned Self-Sacrifice into a Pseudoscience
Writing in 1957, decades before Effective Altruism had a name or a giving pledge, Ayn Rand described altruism’s core demand: that need functions as “the first mortgage on your life and the moral purpose of your existence.”
Destroying The Montessori Method
Social justice warriors are openly trying to destroy the Montessori Method step by step, inch by inch.
How To Think: Conversations From a Father to a Son
I couldn’t find the book I wanted for my son. So I wrote it.
Foreword to 3/11 Viral Takeover
On March 11, 2020, a Pandemic was Declared and Our World Changed Forever
The Self Under Siege: What Ayn Rand’s Epic Novel “The Fountainhead” Shows Us About the Societies We Build
Ayn Rand built five main characters in The Fountainhead who function as psychological archetypes, but her real achievement was more precise than that. She mapped five distinct textures of subjective experience that emerge from a single upstream choice: where does the self live?
For the New Individualist: A Message of Hope, Love and Selfishness
In her pamphlet, Textbook of Americanism, Ayn Rand wrote that “[a]n individualist is a man who says: “I will not run anyone’s life—nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone—nor sacrifice anyone to myself.”
The Most Important Thing the Founders Built Wasn’t the Constitution
Their deepest fear was an ignorant citizenry—a public that could be handed liberty and squander it because they lacked the mental tools to defend it. The Founders understood something that gets lost in the monument-and-marble version of history: a republic is not a structure. It’s a practice. And practices die when people forget how to perform them.
Thinkers vs. Ragers: Epstein, Kirk, Iran—Same Grift, Different Day
Rachel Maddow monetizes liberal dread. Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens monetize your dread.
Why The Left Does Not Celebrate Iranian Freedom Protestors
The Iranian people celebrating Israel and America weren’t just rejecting the Ayatollah. They were rejecting the entire architecture of ideological capture—the architecture the Western Left has been building at home.
Black Innovators and Entrepreneurs Under Capitalism
That innovative black Americans flourished in late 19th- and early 20th-century America is a little-known part of our Capitalist heritage.
Why Most Civilizations Fail, Part 3: The Choice Between Stasis and Infinity
What separates societies that generate knowledge from those that suppress it, and what does this mean for our future?
The Left’s War Against America and Western Civilization
The Left is at war with America. The Left is at war with the West. The Left is at war with the essential principles of Western Civilization.
Why Most Civilizations Fail, Part 2: Why Geographic Determinism Fails
Ultimate causation lies in ideas: why did some societies exploit their geographic advantages and others didn’t, and why did some overcome geographic disadvantages? Geography can’t answer those questions, but knowledge creation can.
Why Most Civilizations Fail, Part 1: The Island Paradox
Geography alone can’t explain why some isolated, resource-poor societies like Iceland thrived while others like Easter Island collapsed.
Ten Commandments Ruling Underscores That Progressives Need School Choice
While most people probably think of school choice as driven by conservatives who want education different from “woke” public schools, progressives need choice, too.
“Ghost Student” Fraud, and Why Federal Student Aid Must Go
ABC News reported that “in California alone, nearly a third of all community college applicants in 2024 were identified as fraudulent.”
Victory for Choice: Idaho Parental Choice Tax Credit Upheld
Last September, the Idaho teachers’ unions and other opponents of education choice filed a lawsuit to halt the tax credit program.
The Meaning of President’s Day
America’s Early Presidents Were Admirable Men of Principle– Let us Hope we can Find More Like Them
Left Can’t Meme
Richard Dawkins coined “meme” in 1976 to describe units of cultural transmission—ideas that replicate like genes.
This Valentine’s Day Celebrate The True Meaning of Love
Love is far too precious to be offered indiscriminately. It is above all in the area of love that egalitarianism ought to be repudiated. Love represents an exalted exchange–a spiritual exchange–between two people, for the purpose of mutual benefit.
Books: Masculine Power, Feminine Beauty
Review of “Masculine Power, Feminine Beauty: The Volitional, Objective Basis for Heterosexuality in Romantic Love and Marriage” by Ronald Pisaturo
Inconvenient Historical Truths From ‘Black History Month’
A few historical and inconvenient notes left on the cutting room floor during Black History Month.
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