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POLITICS
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, ICE, and Illegal Immigration
ICE agents enforcing the law aren’t the threat to American values. The threat is the accumulated mass of people who broke the law to enter, refuse to assimilate, exploit systems meant for citizens, and vote for politicians who promise more of the same.
Make Health Care More Affordable by Correcting Government-Created Distortions
What follows is a menu of health care, welfare, and related tax changes that would reduce spending and deficits and show that Republicans are serious about restraining federal spending, reining in welfare abuse, and improving health care affordability by removing government-created distortions.
Put More Drugs Over the Counter
If the president and Congress follow through on the promise to shift more prescription drugs to pharmacies’ over-the-counter sections, they will make medicines cheaper and more accessible—but, more importantly, they will return a measure of control over health care to patients themselves, where it belongs.
How The Response To The COVID Pandemic Broke American Society—And Why It Hasn’t Healed
COVID presented real danger, especially to the elderly. But the response—particularly from progressive governors, health authorities, and allied institutions—inflicted damage far exceeding what the virus required.
CULTURE
Howard Roark and the Great Heroes of Literature
Literature—my favorite field. Heroism—my favorite topic.
Dilbert Creator Scott Adams and Intellectual Courage
It was in 2015 that the famed creator of the Dilbert cartoon first started speculating that Donald Trump had what it takes to become president. For holding this view, and then becoming ever more open about his support of Trump, Adams lost everything.
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.
Why Do New Year’s Resolutions Typically Fail?
If you want your New Year’s resolutions to be completed, take the steps needed to really commit to it.
WORLD
Venezeula’s Oil and the Monroe Doctrine
The capture of former Venezuelan President Maduro was a tactical success that has laid the foundation for cutting off China and Cuba from Venezuelan oil, while also limiting the growing regional influence that China, Russia, Iran, and other adversarial nations have enjoyed in the Western hemisphere.
Justice in Caracas
Venezuela has a chance at revival. America has removed a security threat. And autocrats everywhere just learned that no palace provides immunity from justice.
Brussels Bets the Farm
If the EU wishes to be honest about the concept of free markets and preserve its agricultural base, it must reduce the environmental, administrative, and social burdens imposed on its own farmers.
The Hazard of Doing Business with China – and What to Do About It
Moral, profit seeking businesses must be vigilant about the China risk; it is in their self-interest to compete and trade freely and not help authoritarian countries expand their control.
MARKETS
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.
Understanding Austrian Economics, Part 1
what a good has cost to produce cannot directly determine its value, What it will cost to produce determines how much of it will continue to be made
LAW
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.
SCI-TECH
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.
The Separation of State from Religion, Science, and Education (Part 8 of 10)
The system of public education could be abolished over the course of a generation, in a way that need not impose financial hardship on the parents of any child alive at the time of the abolition’s commencement.