Politics >
Part I: Objectivism Applied to Immigration Law
That immigration authorities are enforcing a law badly in need of reform does not alter the fact that ICE officers are valid agents of law enforcement and must be treated accordingly.
Taken Hostage
Last year’s two-part PBS American Experience series, Taken Hostage, written, produced and directed by Robert Stone, merits renewed attention.
A Transformative President: The Meaning of The Presidency of Donald J. Trump
Greatness, in the presidential sense, means transformation—not moral perfection.
What a Rational Immigration System Actually Looks Like
Americans have a rational self-interest in admitting people who will strengthen that protection and excluding people who will undermine it.
President Donald Trump on War on Iran
Iran can never have a nuclear program. We will annihilate their every army and missile industry.
How Congress Can Fix the Debt Crisis (Before It’s Too Late)
By 2036, interest costs, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are projected to consume 100 percent of federal revenues.
Law >
Fixing Airport Security Screening
Congress should hand over TSA’s screening operations to the nation’s airports, which could then contract them to expert private security firms.
Fairness Doctrine 2.0
Dictating content under the threat of government reprisal is censorship, and censorship always involves a violation of property rights.
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.
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.
The Death of Renee Good: When Ideology Overides Reason
This is not a story about a blameless victim. This is a story about ideology so divorced from reality that it sends people into dangerous confrontations apparently unprepared for obvious consequences.
January 6 Was a Protest/Riot — Not an Insurrection
Despite the media’s incessant insurrection chorus over the past three years and Congress’ Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, there is a dearth of evidence that those who participated in the riot did so with the ultim…
World >
Brussels vs. Washington
For years, Europe has tried to convince itself that it could regulate its way to technological greatness.
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 U.S. and Israel Attack Iran
There has never been a better chance for a free Iran than now. Much of the job will be done by the US and Israel, but it can only be finalised by the Iranian people. There will never be a better chance.
President Donald Trump on War on Iran
Iran can never have a nuclear program. We will annihilate their every army and missile industry.
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 wit…
Culture >
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 adjuste…
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 se…
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—…
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 st…
Thinkers vs. Ragers: Epstein, Kirk, Iran—Same Grift, Different Day
Rachel Maddow monetizes liberal dread. Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens monetize your dread.
Markets: Business & Economics >
Jones Act Undermines U.S. National Security & Economy in Both War and Peace
If the Jones Act must be suspended to address national security emergencies, why do we keep it in place during times of peace? Why keep it around at all?
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 centuri…
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)
Business Sucess Requires Principles Over Pragmatism
One of the reasons businesspeople dismiss moral principles is that they see them as burdensome duties to benefit others by sacrificing one’s own interests.
Understanding “Austrian” Economics, Part 2
All the rest of Austrian economics follows from these basic insights.
Science & Technology >
The Real Meaning of Earth Hour
The lights of our cities and monuments are a symbol of human achievement, of what mankind has accomplished in rising from the cave to the skyscraper. Earth Hour presents the disturbing spectacle of people celebrating those lights being extinguished. Earth Hour symbolize…
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.
“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.”
The Inventive Period of Capitalism in America
The so-called “Gilded Age” of “Robber Barrons” is better named as the Inventive Period of Capitalism.