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CULTURE
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.
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.
Ending The Federal Department of Education Would save Taxpayers $97 Billion Dollars a Year
By Neal McCluskey for Cato The Trump administration is looking for federal spending to cut, which seems pretty urgent given the nation’s nearly $37 trillion debt. The US Department of Education (US ED), which is neither constitutional, competent, nor effective, is...
Book Review: The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
Why ‘Colorblindness’ on Race Matters More than Ever
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 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.
What If the Federal Government Begins Defying Court Orders?
Would a determined executive ever fall back in the end on the core power asymmetry between the two branches—it has guns, and the judges don’t?
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
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.
Attack on the Space Titans: Musk, Bezos, and The Ethics of Economic Power
Most successful entrepreneurs become rich, not because of luck or having been handed extraordinary opportunities, but because they have worked productively.
POLITICS
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.
Trump’s Iran Strikes are Constitutional
The original draft of Article 1 allocated to Congress the power to ‘make war.’ But James Madison, the father of our Constitution, demanded that it be amended so that the president would have broader authority to take actions in defense of our country.