Their deepest fear was an ignorant citizenry—a public that could be handed liberty and squander it because they lacked the mental tools to defend it. The Founders understood something that gets lost in the monument-and-marble version of history: a republic is not a st…
America’s Early Presidents Were Admirable Men of Principle– Let us Hope we can Find More Like Them
A few historical and inconvenient notes left on the cutting room floor during Black History Month.
What conquest built justified the conquest—not because the process was clean, but because the result expanded human freedom and flourishing beyond what existed before.
What is called Black History Month might more accurately be called “the sins of white people” month.
Peikoff offers personal insights into the real Ayn Rand—the thinker, the artist, the teacher, the passionate valuer of the best within man.
Hamilton did not as treasury secretary implement, or espouse, any system of protective tariffs or bounties.
In the wilderness of the New World, the Plymouth Pilgrims had progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism.
Underlying the political collectivism of the anti-Columbus crowd is a racist view of human nature.
The so-called “Gilded Age” of “Robber Barrons” is better named as the Inventive Period of Capitalism.
The American Revolution remains unique in human history: a revolution–and a nation–founded on a moral principle, the principle of individual rights.
There is no better example of how one can balance America’s strivings and failures than that provided by the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass in his famous July 5, 1852, speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
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.
American and European intellectuals had been comparing the merits of a hypothetical world based on equality, reason and nature to the world in which they lived — based on habit, custom and superstition. The American Revolution tested their theories in the real world.
With the capacity to print forever, the US could fund its empire, fund its welfare state, fund its gigantic budget, fund its military, and all without bothering with actually doing much of anything beyond sitting behind screens.
The horrors of Nazism, Stalinism, and Maoism did not begin in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s. Those horrors were the result of a long evolution of ideas leading to a consolidation of power in the central government in the quest for “social justice.”
Not one of these “rights” can be provided to anyone without some other American reduced in his freedom.
Ayn Rand published The Fountainhead, and Rose Wilder Lane published The Discovery of Freedom, and Isabel Paterson published The God of the Machine, all in 1943.
“I am now a fundamentalist American; give me time and I will tell you why individualism, laissez-faire and… capitalism offer the best opportunities for the development of the human spirit.”
Few phrases from our country’s creation illustrate that disconnect better than E Pluribus Unum: out of many, one.
Penn’s commitment to a free society needs our re-commitment.
That innovative black Americans flourished in late 19th- and early 20th-century America is a little-known part of our Capitalist heritage.
Hamilton is an Enlightened, classical liberal, a more consistent champion of rights and liberty than any other Founder, thus an inspiring model for contemporary friends of liberty.
In the 19th century, liberalism was identified with the belief in and the defense of individual liberty in various spheres of life.
Washington knew his efforts were a means to an end—maintaining liberty. We would profit by reflecting on his words and whether the vision we act upon today reflects that vision or distorts it.
The pandemic response enabled new government powers of surveillance, enforcement, and hegemony, resulting in the ultimate and global experiment in social management under the guise of science.
John Locke’s view reflects the fact that a government that has nothing of its own to give, but can only give what it takes from others, means it cannot “give” to some without involuntarily violating the general welfare of others.
Throughout history, some people have enjoyed greater wealth than others. However, American society was the first in which thatwealth was attained, not by conquest or confiscation, but by production and trade. For this, America’s capitalists were condemned.
The “monkish ignorance and superstition” of today is the misplaced belief that the individual is to be sacrificed to the group, the collective, to the nation – as long as the banner under which it is done is called “democracy” or “social justice.”
Corporatism abolishes the competitive dynamic of competitive capitalism and replaces it with cartels run by oligarchs.
The proper evaluation of the United States in relation to slavery is this: ending slavery by fighting and winning the Civil War was a tremendous moral achievement and should be celebrated.
We are seeing a real-time example of how history is really written. The narrative is more self-serving than we knew. If all the power centers in society get something tremendously wrong, an informal conspiracy of silence develops around it, with the hope of just wiping …
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