CULTURE

A nation’s culture is the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men, which their fellow-citizens have accepted in whole or in part, and which have influenced the nation’s way of life. Since a culture is a complex battleground of different ideas and influences, to speak of a ‘culture’ is to speak only of the dominant ideas, always allowing for the existence of dissenters and exceptions. — AYN RAND

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.

“See For Yourself”

“See For Yourself”

The ability to see clearly—to form your own hypothesis about what’s actually in front of you, independent of what you’ve been told to expect—is the foundation of everything else in this book.

Auto Insurance Chaos in California

Auto Insurance Chaos in California

In November 1988, California voters changed the rules of the game in the automobile insurance industry. In passing Proposition 103, they decided, among other things, to vote themselves a 20 percent reduction in automobile insurance rates and to remove the insurance industry antitrust exemption.

The Story of the Victorian-Era Anti-Mandate Movement

The Story of the Victorian-Era Anti-Mandate Movement

The Leicester Anti-Vaccination League of the 1870s and 1880s England was one of the more effective anti-vaccine mandate movements in Western history. It rose up in response to the Vaccination Act of 1867 as passed by Parliament in compliance with intense industry lobbying and the familiar graft.

The Radio Priest Is Back with a Podcast

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 adjusted the message.

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