Everyone can see what the movement was broadcasting to every mother in crisis who was watching: kill your children and a crowd will call you a hero.
CULTURE
A nation’s culture is the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men, which their fellow-citizens have accepted in whole or in part, and which have influenced the nation’s way of life. Since a culture is a complex battleground of different ideas and influences, to speak of a ‘culture’ is to speak only of the dominant ideas, always allowing for the existence of dissenters and exceptions. — AYN RAND
Why Humans Care More About Rank Than Riches
Wealth Isn’t Zero-Sum. Status Is.
Hatred of Western Civilization: Why Terrorists Attacked America
The late Dr. John Lewis read this statement to his class on September 12, 2001 — the day after America was attacked by Islamic Jihadists. His words are all the more relevant today.
My Remembrance of 9/11
My first New York job was in the World Trade Center. Seventeen years later, I watched it fall.
This Labor Day Celebrate The Human Mind
On Labor Day, let us honor the true root of production and wealth: the human mind.
A Bet Between Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich Demonstrates The Most Important Check in Economics
The Simon–Ehrlich wager and why predictions of resource scarcity keep getting it wrong.
Book Review of “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder” by Salman Rushdie
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie recounts an unavenged American horror story—arguably another act of war on America here in the U.S. Indeed, the assassin was charged and convicted with terrorism by the U.S.
Why a Leftist Betrayed Your Friendship
Someone who cared about you—perhaps genuinely, perhaps for years—decided that their framework mattered more than you did.
Western Civilization, Education, and the Racist Road to Barbarism
This is no longer an educational system. Its character has been completely transformed and it now clearly reveals itself to be what for many decades it has been in the process of becoming: namely, an agency working for the barbarization of youth.
Rediscovering The American Ideal
If we want to restore freedom to our country, we must re-discover our roots.
Put the Independence Back in Independence Day
The American Revolution remains unique in human history: a revolution–and a nation–founded on a moral principle, the principle of individual rights.
On July 4th: Love America or Lose Her
Patriotism is more than a sentiment. It is a necessity. To keep what history has presented to us, Americans must either love it or lose it. Balkanize America and you risk becoming the Balkans.
A Declaration of Independence from Tyrannical Government
The “monkish ignorance and superstition” of today is the misplaced belief that the individual is to be sacrificed to the group, the collective, to the nation – as long as the banner under which it is done is called “democracy” or “social justice.”
The Death of George Washington
George Washington’s terrible fate ought to have sounded a national alarm to ring through our long history.
Life Under Communism
I am worried because too many people, especially our youth, don’t even have a clue as to what living under a totalitarian regime is like.
Why Did Karmelo Anthony Kill Austin Metcalf?
What kind of internal life makes “I was told to leave” a reason to kill someone?
The Separation of State from Religion, Science, and Education (Part 8 of 10)
The system of public education could be abolished over the course of a generation, in a way that need not impose financial hardship on the parents of any child alive at the time of the abolition’s commencement.
Chicago Capitalism Champion Jonathan Hoenig
Interview with American author, investor and Fox Business contributor Jonathan Hoenig.
“Diversity Is Our Strength”
“Diversity is our strength” began as an appeal for tolerance and inclusion—who could oppose that? It has since morphed into the opposite.
“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.
Auto Insurance Chaos in California
In November 1988, California voters changed the rules of the game in the automobile insurance industry. In passing Proposition 103, they decided, among other things, to vote themselves a 20 percent reduction in automobile insurance rates and to remove the insurance industry antitrust exemption.
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.