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POLITICS
How Charlie Kirk Inspired a Generation
America was founded on the principle that we are free to disagree, and Charlie embodied that. Through respectful debate, he showed that people of all backgrounds and beliefs can stand firm in their convictions while still recognizing one another’s humanity. He lived that belief every single day.
How the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Betrayed Children Everywhere
The AAP, originally created a century ago to advocate for pediatricians and their patients, has devolved into an advertiser and lobbyist for the corporate interests that fund their operations. So much for “dedicated to the health of all children.”
Free Valjean
Journalism does Valjean a further injustice when it focuses only on the bone and not the boot.
Freedom in a Post-Covid World
As we approach the semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence, we need to rethink the very foundations of freedom, its threats, and what we are going to do in response.
CULTURE
Campus Progressives Preach Tolerance — and Produce Violence
Defining words as a form of violence creates a permission structure for actual violence.
Lewis and Clark College Dishonors Pioneers
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were pioneers.
This Labor Day Celebrate The Human Mind
On Labor Day, let us honor the true root of production and wealth: the human mind.
Movies: “Eddington” Plunges Viewers Right Back to 2020
The truth is that the Covid years are the prism through which most everything else playing out in public affairs today can be read. Truth is stranger than fiction, but this fiction works beautifully precisely because it comes so very close to telling the truth in every grim detail.
LAW
Charlie Kirk: A Gift For Embracing Critics and Debating Ideas
From universities to legacy media to Antifa to Black Lives Matter to Big Pharma, Kirk fought the most influential cartels in our midst. They noticed.
The U.S. Constitution, the Bedrock of American Freedom
The purpose of a constitution is to define the structure and rules by which a government operates. In the case of the United States Constitution, those rules are—contra to most other such constitutions—explicitly designed to limit the government’s authority.
Do Legal Checks on a President’s Power “Diminish the Votes of the Citizens Who Elected Him”?
Requiring that a president conduct himself within the bounds of the law does not somehow “diminish the votes of the citizens who elected him.”
Why Free Speech Matters
The pursuit of truth depends on open debate.
SCI-TECH
Science As an Excuse
How we find ourselves again in the awkward position of having trusted the experts and discovering that this was not a good idea.
How to Unleash Small Modular Reactors
Testimony to the House Oversight Committee on “The New Atomic Age: Advancing America’s Energy Future.”
The Inventive Period of Capitalism in America
The so-called “Gilded Age” of “Robber Barrons” is better named as the Inventive Period of Capitalism.
Green New Scam
The House BBB’s “termination” of solar/wind subsidies is overly generous, contrary to lobbyist lies.
WORLD
The Brussel’s Effect: How the European Union Became the World’s Regulatory Superpower
The EU shapes the behavior of global companies, including American big tech firms, which adapt their products to comply with European norms
When Soviet Power Crumbled: The Failed Hard-Line Coup Attempt of August 1991
The demise of the Communist Party and the Soviet system was one of the momentous events in modern history.
Recognition of a Palestinian State Rewards Terrorism
The threat by France, England, Canada, Australia, and other American allies to “recognize” a nonexistent Palestinian “state” has incentivized Hamas to reject US peace deals and has thus endangered the lives of the 20 living hostages.
The Economic Case Against Foreign Aid
Proponents of foreign aid say it can help lift countries out of poverty, but the evidence tells a different story.
MARKETS
How Labor Unions Can Be Anti-Labor
To anyone who understands the role of the productivity of labor in raising real wages, it should be obvious that the unions’ policy of combating the rise in the productivity of labor renders them in fact a leading enemy of the rise in real wages.
FED is Wrong: Inflation is Not Just About Rising Prices
All eyes on Jackson Hole this week as the Fed tackles inflation.
Profit Over Principle?
Are principles and profits really in conflict?
Books: Henry Hazlitt’s “Economics In One Lesson” Reviewed by The Capitalist Professor, George Reisman
There is no subject that more urgently needs to be understood in the world today than economics. Our well-being, indeed, our very lives, depend on the production of wealth.