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CULTURE
The Inventive Period of Capitalism in America
The so-called “Gilded Age” of “Robber Barrons” is better named as the Inventive Period of Capitalism.
Put the Independence Back in Independence Day
The American Revolution remains unique in human history: a revolution–and a nation–founded on a moral principle, the principle of individual rights.
Why Frederick Douglass’s Fourth of July Speech Still Matters
There is no better example of how one can balance America’s strivings and failures than that provided by the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass in his famous July 5, 1852, speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
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.
SCI-TECH
Green New Scam
The House BBB’s “termination” of solar/wind subsidies is overly generous, contrary to lobbyist lies.
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.
Blaming SARS-CoV-2 on Bats in Wet Markets: A Look Back at Fauci’s Great Spillover Hoax
Why precisely were Anthony Fauci and his cohorts so anxious to blame SARS-CoV-2 on bats and later pangolins in wet markets?
The Nvidia Way: How Nvidia Became the Most Valuable Company in History
The Nvidia “way” is Tae Kim’s attempt to characterize what makes Nvidia different from other companies. He identifies three components: a strive for excellence, hiring practicesm and generous and widespread stock programs.
LAW
The First Amendment Protects Ideologically Based Ad Boycotts
The Supreme Court will uphold as well-established the First Amendment right to engage in ideological ad boycotts. The question is whether the Trump administration will succeed in bulldozing this as a practical matter before it reaches the high court.
The Media Beast Targets the MAHA Reform
There is poetry in how the scholar called a “fringe epidemiologist” by the previous agency heads is now in charge.
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.
End All Taxpayer Funding of CPB, NPR, PBS
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say Congress should fund a national media.
WORLD
European Union Tech Laws Erect Digital Iron Curtain
Rather than producing its own alternatives to American tech giants, the EU has chosen to suffocate existing ones through regulations such as the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
Compulsory Globalism
How did the practice of freedom as it extends over national juridical lines come to be so widely loathed and disparaged?
Destroy the Octopus
Dealing with Iran’s Proxy War Against the U.S.
Canada’s Ailing National Healthcare Is Not a Model for America
Despite a population of 40 million, there are only 432 MRI machines in Canada. The US has more than 13,000. Long wait times are the symptom of a deep problem.
MARKETS
Free-Markets and Globalization: The Long-Run Big Picture
Globalization is the process of bringing the entire world into the system of division of labor and thus into the system of social cooperation, of which division of labor is the essence. Its completion will mark the highest level of division of labor and social cooperation that it is possible for human beings to achieve, given the size of the world’s population.
A Course-Correction on Antitrust
Is the DOJ finally done playing games with the economy?
Tariff Advocates Rarely Talk About How Tariffs Punish Consumers
Politicians who support tariffs and other forms of government intervention in the economy frequently emphasize reshoring, trade deficits, cheap imports, and national security, but they rarely talk about consumers.
Progress In a Free Economy
The Industrial Revolution has allowed mankind to improve his environment.
POLITICS
The Meta-FTC Trial — A Waste of Time
“Why can’t you think about it that Mark Zuckerberg is really smart” and that he saw the value where others didn’t?
Tariffs Are Awful, but the Income Tax May Be Worse
If Mr. Trump completely eliminates the IRS and the hated income tax along with it, there may be a reasonable case for increasing tariff rates.
July Fourth Celebrates America’s and the West’s Core Values
Reason, Rights, and Science Are What Made America Great
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.