WAR WITH IRAN
Trump’s Iran Strikes are Constitutional
The original draft of Article 1 allocated to Congress the power to ‘make war.’ But James Madison, the father of our Constitution, demanded that it be amended so that the president would have broader authority to take actions in defense of our country.
Iran’s Proxy War on the United States
The United States and Israel must assume that unless it is stopped, Iran will soon — how soon is always a matter of degree — have a nuclear arsenal.
WORLD
Khamenei Is Dead — A Historic Turning Point
Khamenei’s death is a tremendous act of justice to the countless people his regime tortured, kidnapped, raped, and murdered.
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.
An Open Letter from Claire Lai, Daughter of Chinese Political Prisoner Jimmy Lai, to Eileen Gu, the American-born Star of China’s Winter Olympics Team
On Feb. 9, at the age of 78, my father was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong for championing these freedoms through the newspaper he founded and published. I believe that you — a celebrated member of the Chinese Olympic team and someone deeply respected within Chinese society — could be a catalyst for a humanitarian gesture by the Chinese government.
Black History Month: Why Don’t They Teach About the Arab-Muslim Slave Trade in Africa?
Black history is American history. It ought not be “relegated” to a month, and slavery ought not be relegated to only the European slave trade.
LAW
DHS Administrative Warrants, ICE Immigration Arrests, and the Fourth Amendment
Can executive officials authorize themselves to enter a home? Or must they obtain a warrant from a judicial officer?
More Guns, Less Murder?
The year 2025 is shaping up to have the lowest homicide rate since 1900. Let that sink in. The lowest in 125 years. Law-abiding citizens carrying firearms aren’t the problem. They never were.
A Prosecutor Breaks Down the ICE Officer Shooting of Renee Good in Minnesota
Objectivist former prosecutor James Valliant assesses the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minnesota.
Legal Leviathan: Big Law Is Yet Another Problem
Big Law fundamentally distorts the American legal system by offering billions of dollars in free legal services to unconstitutional crusades and liberal pet projects while denying access to any opposition group.
POLITICS
President Donald Trump on War on Iran
Iran can never have a nuclear program. We will annihilate their every army and missile industry.
Decentralizing Public Health: Institutional Monopolies Are Fraying
It is ironic that the Trump administration, rightly, objects to the WHO’s mission creep and politicization but fails to see the same problem with the CDC in its own backyard.
The Worst Enemy of Black People According to Malcolm X
“The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have.” — Malcom X
How Not to Sell Free-Market Healthcare Ideas
Conceding the premise that if the government were only competent enough, it should be in charge of securing healthcare for everyone grants the moral high ground to those who want the government to take on a greater role in healthcare, making it harder to even imagine an alternative.
CULTURE
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?
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.
MARKETS
Gold and The Quiet Birth of a New Monetary Order
A new reserve asset is rising. It is not a cryptocurrency. It is not a new fiat experiment. It is something far older, heavier, and far harder to control.
The Politics and Economics of Plato, Aristotle, and the Ancient Greeks
In Aristotle, we find a more subtle and sophisticated understanding of some economic themes than in Plato. While Aristotle’s answers were incomplete and often misdirected, as well as incorrect, he at least was among the first to ask the types of questions that centuries later became part of the heart of economic analysis and understanding.
In Defense of “Evil Billionaire” Jim Pattison
We should thank billionaire entrepreneurs like Jim Pattison and patronize their businesses – not attack them.
Can the Government Confiscate Your Gold?
The Real Risks of Owning Gold (and Why It’s Still Worth Owning)
SCI-TECH
Books: A Rebel in Eden: The War Between Individualism and Environmentalism
A Rebel in Eden: The War Between Individualism and Environmentalism, by Robert Bidinotto, explains the philosophic foundations of the modern political movement, theories that, in some cases, go back centuries.
“Greenwashing” and the Anatomy of Compromise
As Ayn Rand explains in her short essay The Anatomy of Compromise, compromising rational principles never works.
Science As an Excuse
How we find ourselves again in the awkward position of having trusted the experts and discovering that this was not a good idea.
How to Unleash Small Modular Reactors
Testimony to the House Oversight Committee on “The New Atomic Age: Advancing America’s Energy Future.”