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CULTURE
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.
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
Parent Power Can Improve US Education
Parents must seize control of their children’s education from the “interlocking directorate” that is waging a war against children’s minds.
The Full Yaron Brook Interview: Selfishness, Immigration, War, Love, Liberty and of Course Ayn Rand
In a full, hour-long interview, Brook defends the marketplace and the self-interest that drives it. He also carves out the path of self-interest through mountains of big issues: war, poverty, immigration, drugs and children–even how self-interest is important for your love life.
SCI-TECH
The Case for EV Freedom
Government should remove all preferences for electric vehicles and allow them to compete and grow on a free market. This will enable EVs to reach their full potential to provide affordable, no-tailpipe-emissions transport without harming consumers or the grid.
Congress’s new budget should eliminate all IRA “tax credits”
All the IRA “tax credits” are subsidies for inferior, often totally unprofitable forms of energy.
Celebrate Production & Science This Earth Day
Earth is just a place; it is not a supernatural organism that deliberately or consciously works to help us and therefore needs to be thanked.
Why We Should Celebrate Fossil Fuels on Earth Day
How human progress, and the use of fossil fuels, has made our environment cleaner and healthier.
LAW
Feds Can’t Regulate “Ideological Diversity” at Schools Like Harvard
No civil rights law on the books requires “viewpoint diversity” in university admissions or hiring or creates a protected class of students or faculty based on ideological views.
Who Controls the Administrative State?
Not a day goes by when the New York Times does not manufacture some maudlin defense of the put-upon minions of the tax-funded managerial class. In this worldview, the agencies are always right, whereas any elected or appointed person seeking to rein them in or terminate them is attacking the “public interest.”
The First Amendment and The Case of Anti-Israel Green Card Holder Mahmoud Khalil
If the government is able to prove that his actions went beyond First Amendment protected speech, the courts may well resolve the issue in favor of the government.
Defund NPR
Defunding NPR and PBS and all government-sponsored media isn’t just about saving taxpayers money, and it’s certainly not about placating Elon Musk.
WORLD
Compulsory Globalism
How did the practice of freedom as it extends over national juridical lines come to be so widely loathed and disparaged?
Musk Derangement Syndrome Hits Europe
Billionaires and celebrities, like everyone else, are entitled to express political opinions regardless of their level of expertise. What seems to be required today, however, is that such opinions align with center-left ideology.
Putin’s Deception and Ours
Blaming others, such as the U.S. (e.g., CIA, etc) is a standard rationalization for the failure of dictatorships such as Cuba and Venezuela and for the unlimited power it gives the rulers.
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.
MARKETS
Progress In a Free Economy
The Industrial Revolution has allowed mankind to improve his environment.
High Prices of Prescription Drugs? Price Controls are Not the Answer
The federal government does countless things that increase prices for pharmaceuticals. If Trump wants to reduce drug prices, there are several steps he can take and steps that he should push Congress to take. Price controls are never the answer.
IMF SDRs and The Illusion of Inflationary Prosperity
SDRs are simply a mechanism by which to increase global currencies to meet the demands of governments to spend more than they are able to either collect in taxes or borrow from domestic and international creditors. It is a way for governments to continue to live and spend beyond their means.
The Moral Case for Globalization
Globalization is the relatively free movement of people, things, money, and ideas across natural or political borders.
POLITICS
Universal Health Care Freedom on the Fourth of July
It is precisely because our health care is so important to each of us that we need to be especially careful to preserve and protect the rights of physicians and other health care providers.
Book Review: The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
Why ‘Colorblindness’ on Race Matters More than Ever
Ayn Rand’s Devastating Critique of ‘Liberals’
Ayn Rand’s assessment of modern “liberals” differs radically from the criticisms leveled by conservatives, a group she is often wrongly lumped in with.
Trump’s Afrikaner Refugees: Strange Process, Right Decision
The US government should allow those who are discriminated against under foreign affirmative action policies to apply for asylum or to be considered refugees for in-country refugee processing.