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Part II: The Campaign Against ICE
The foremost authority on Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism offers his observations on the partisan campaign of violence against U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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.
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.
Rejoice in Rescue and Defense: An Historic Easter Sunday Statement from the President of the United States
Throughout history, American soldiers and civilians alike have been left behind, sacrificed and left to die—due to America’s incompetence, ignorance and appeasement against evil forces of dictatorship. Not today.
How Certificate-of-Need (CON) Laws Hurt Rural Communities
Certificate-of-need (CON) laws result in fewer hospitals, fewer service providers, and fewer choices for consumers, then would occur in a free-market.
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.
Law >
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.
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.
FCC Threats and the Fog of War
The Government Cannot Be the Arbiter of Truth.
Trump’s Operation Epic Fury Iran Strikes Are Constitutional
The Iran Strikes Are Constitutional. That’s Not The Interesting Question.
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?
The United States of America is Not a Democracy
If we’ve become a democracy, it would represent a deep betrayal of our founders, who saw democracy as another form of tyranny.
World >
The Nationally Televised Speech President Donald J. Trump Needs To Make on Iran
Here’s the speech that President Donald Trump ought to deliver in a nationally televised address.
Brussels vs. Washington
For years, Europe has tried to convince itself that it could regulate its way to technological greatness.
The Unworthy and Unwilling Gulf States In the Israel–America–Iran War
Privately, many of them want Washington and Jerusalem to keep going until Iran can no longer threaten their lifelines. Publicly, they speak the language of appeasement, international law, and de-escalation. They want the result, but not the responsibility.
Europe Increases Its Assault on Free Expression
…and American Policymakers Follow Along.
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.
Culture >
The Sinister Machine of Compassion
The distance between Canada’s savings projections for euthanasia across an aging population and Xinjiang’s harvesting is not moral. It is procedural.
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…
The Easter Masquerade: Why Religion Must Clash with Science
Religion’s alleged harmony with science is a fraudulent masquerade, extending only insofar as religious dogmas are not called into question.
How “Effective Altruism” Turned Self-Sacrifice into a Pseudoscience
Writing in 1957, decades before Effective Altruism had a name or a giving pledge, Ayn Rand described altruism’s core demand: that need functions as “the first mortgage on your life and the moral purpose of your existence.”
Destroying The Montessori Method
Social justice warriors are openly trying to destroy the Montessori Method step by step, inch by inch.
How To Think: Conversations From a Father to a Son
I couldn’t find the book I wanted for my son. So I wrote it.
Markets: Business & Economics >
US Shipbuilding and the Jones Act
US-built ships cost approximately five times as much as those constructed in South Korea.
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?
End of DEI?
The DEI terminology may not have disappeared entirely from business but the ideology (if it ever amounted to more than virtue signaling in corporate communications) has been extinguished.
Gold and The Quiet Birth of a New Monetary Order
A new reserve asset is rising. It is not a cryptocurrency. It is not a new fiat experiment. It is something far older, heavier, and far harder to control.
America’s Triage: On Trump’s Economic Nationalism
“You should not be dependent for that which is fundamental to your sovereignty on any other nation.”
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 future on offer is extraordinary. That should make us angry—genuinely, productively angry—that a coward’s epistemology is positioned to foreclose it.
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 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.
The Rise and Fall of Wikipedia
The rise of Wikipedia was spectacular, implausible, and glorious. Its fall is equally disappointing, predictable, and inglorious.
Books: A Rebel in Eden: The War Between Individualism and Environmentalism
A Rebel in Eden: The War Between Individualism and Environmentalism, by Robert Bidinotto, explains the philosophic foundations of the modern political movement, theories that, in some cases, go back centuries.
The National Academies’ Perversion of Science
A new “report” by the prestigious National Academies engages in heavy fossil fuel benefit denial in order to claim that climate danger is worse than ever.