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

Suicide Should Not Be a Government Service

Canada’s allegedly ‘universal’ health care was unable or unwilling to render the standard services that Mrs. B. would have chosen life over death.

What You Don’t Know About What the President Knows

In most fields, better instruments narrow the mystery. In consciousness research, they have so far only sharpened our view of how deep it goes.

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Law >

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.

Politics >

Missouri v. Biden: A Free Speech Victory, Sort of

The Decree is a win, but it comes nowhere near capturing the seriousness of the reality or the initial court judgment that led to the injunction. Free speech is still in danger, and the fight continues. We have taken a step in the right direction as a start.

Taken Hostage

Last year’s two-part PBS American Experience series, Taken Hostage, written, produced and directed by Robert Stone, merits renewed attention.

World >

Endgame in Ukraine

Ukrainians Survived Stalin. They Fought Putin Bravely. They Deserve Our Honesty.

Iran Gets Just Deserts

America’s first major defense against Iran is an absolutely rational act and a historic exemplar of the virtue of selfishness.

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.

Markets: Business & Economics >

The Delusions and Dangers of the New Mercantilism

Trump has assumed the powers of a near absolute monarch to decide when, why, and against whom he will arbitrarily raise and lower and raise again tariffs on the importation of goods into the United States.

Science & Technology >

The Coward’s Epistemology

The Coward’s Epistemology

The future on offer is extraordinary. That should make us angry—genuinely, productively angry—that a coward’s epistemology is positioned to foreclose it.

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.