POLITICS
Taken Hostage
Last year’s two-part PBS American Experience series, Taken Hostage, written, produced and directed by Robert Stone, merits renewed attention.
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?
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…
The Future of Liberty
Liberty is freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government
CULTURE
Destroying The Montessori Method
Social justice warriors are openly trying to destroy the Montessori Method step by step, inch by inch.
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.
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
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.
WORLD
Endgame in Ukraine
Ukrainians Survived Stalin. They Fought Putin Bravely. They Deserve Our Honesty.
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…
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.
War Without Killing, Killing Without War
The U.S. has ample opportunity to kill bad guys while leaving good guys—American and Iranian—unharmed.
Iranian Theocracy on the Brink? Why Protesters Deserve Our Moral Support
Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate examine why Iran’s ongoing uprising may be the regime’s most serious challenge yet—and why it deserves far more moral support from the free world.
LAW
FCC Threats and the Fog of War
The Government Cannot Be the Arbiter of Truth.
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.
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…
SCI-TECH
The Latest AI Bill’s Five Major Flaws
AI bill proposal represents a dramatically different approach to President Trump’s vision that would heavily regulate the industry, hinder entrepreneurship, and restrict speech.
“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.
Green New Scam
The House BBB’s “termination” of solar/wind subsidies is overly generous, contrary to lobbyist lies.