Republicans repeatedly tried to buy votes this election cycle. It doesn’t seem to have worked.
POLITICS
The basic and crucial political issue of our age is: capitalism versus socialism, or freedom versus statism. For decades, this issue has been silenced, suppressed, evaded, and hidden under the foggy, undefined rubber-terms of “conservatism” and “liberalism” which had lost their original meaning and could be stretched to mean all things to all men. – AYN RAND
Time to End Bad Immigration Policies
President Trump’s approval rating on immigration has plummeted in large part because so many Americans reject his enforcement efforts in the interior.
How the Free Market Capitalism Gets Blamed for Political Cronyism
Stop Calling It Capitalism When It’s Government Favoritism
Cries for Help: Injury and Death Buried in V-Safe Data
These are the life stories of real people as reported to the CDC through its own vaccine-safety monitoring system called V-safe.
Statism On the Rise as Capitalism and Freedom are in Decline
As Ayn Rand observed, “In order to justify it, the statists have to rouse people to a hysterical fear of some malevolent enemy who threatens them with constant, unpredictable dangers.”
Hatred of Western Civilization: Why Terrorists Attacked America
The late Dr. John Lewis read this statement to his class on September 12, 2001 — the day after America was attacked by Islamic Jihadists. His words are all the more relevant today.
End States Who Sponsor Terrorism
Fifty years of increasing American appeasement in the Mideast have led to fifty years of increasing contempt in the Muslim world for the U.S. The climax was September 11, 2001.
How To Make Medical Care Affordable
Rather than create more government subsidies, policymakers should eliminate supply-side regulations that reduce price competition and affordability.
Laissez-Faire Artificial Intelligence in the Surgical Operating Room
Who Should Govern Surgical AI? Not the FDA—and Not Surgeons Either
The Peverse Economics of Psychiatric Medication: Gatekept and Overprescribed
A more honest approach would treat competent adults as capable of making their own decisions about these drugs, without requiring government permission.
Why Health Insurance in America Lacks Rationality and How To Fix It
How the government drove out the science of risk from the entire business of consumer pricing of health care insurance.
Are Taxes “the Price We Pay for Civilization”?
I want to challenge the premise that the tax-funded welfare state is the ideal civilized society.
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian
Why Nazi Germany was a socialist state, not a capitalist one, and why socialism – an economic system based on government ownership of the means of production – requires a totalitarian dictatorship.
July Fourth Celebrates America’s and the West’s Core Values
Reason, Rights, and Science Are What Made America Great
Why Is American Healthcare So Expensive?
Because it doesn’t operate as a market.
Blaming Patents Won’t Lower Drug Prices
Congress is considering a bill that could deter billions of dollars of medical research investments, undermining U.S. global leadership as a healthcare innovator and harming U.S. patients That’s not Congress’s intent, of course. Lawmakers are trying to fix perceived...
Intersectionality vs. American Individualism
True Justice and real progress cannot be achieved by the false doctrine of “intersectionality” but only by the further application of America’s heritage of individualism and individual rights.
The Outlook for the Future of Capitalism (Part 10 of 10)
Let the advocates of capitalism proceed in the knowledge not only that socialism is dead, but also that what the world still needs to learn is why capitalism deserves to live.
A General Campaign at the Local Level for Laissez-Faire Capitalism (Part 9 of 10)
What would be required to restore New York to its former prosperity and greatness would be the combination of the elimination of public welfare, the abolition of rent controls, and the privatization of the city’s transportation system.
A Pro-Capitalist Foreign Policy (Part 7 of 10)
In the present-day world, a procapitalist foreign policy is indistinguishable from a pro-American foreign policy.
Abolition of Income and Inheritance Taxes Under Capitalism (Part 5 of 10)
A possible way to start on the elimination of the income/inheritance tax right now would be to fight for the immediate adoption of a universal exemption of at least 51 percent of everyone’s income from federal, state, and local income taxation under all circumstances.
Capitalism and the Abolition of the Welfare State (Part 4 of 10)
The savings of individuals would steadily replace taxes as the source of provision for old age.
Privatization of Property: Importance of Fighting on Basis of Principles (Part 2 of 10)
The privatization of property is the most fundamental aspect of a procapitalist political program
Toward the Establishment of Laissez-Faire Capitalism (Part 1 of 10)
If a laissez-faire capitalist society is to be achieved, a political movement pursuing a long-range program will be necessary.
What a Plate of Huevos Rancheros Taught Me About Open Immigration
Immigration is our lifeblood and has made America great. Let’s keep America great. Let’s make America great again.
Memorial Day: What We Owe Our Soldiers
To send soldiers into war without a clear self-defense purpose, and without providing them every possible protection, is a betrayal of their valor and a violation of their rights.
Honoring Virtue: The Purpose of Memorial Day
The greatest soldiers of American history knew that freedom was sacred; no price paid on its behalf was a sacrifice.
President Trump Can Stop Racial Profiling Immediately
The Census Bureau is still moving full speed to promote racial profiling to support disparate impact and DEI objectives. Strong executive action is required to stop and reverse this refusal to change.
How AI Can Improve Education
AI-based programs will help students engage with the material, accelerate their learning and achieve mastery of academic subjects.
Profit-Driven Healthcare Hasn’t Failed Patients, But Regulation-Driven Healthcare Has
Government intervention and regulation in the market, determines how profits are made in US healthcare, turning the profit-motive against patients.
Humans Must Choose Egoism: An Excerpt from Andrew Bernstein’s Captalist Solutions
The key to Ayn Rand’s version of rational egoism lies in understanding the nature of values, and the role they play in human life.
Charity Won’t Eradicate Poverty – Freedom Will
Instead of the “selfishness and greed” of wealthy producers, evidence shows that the fundamental cause of poverty is lack of freedom.