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.
Hamilton did not as treasury secretary implement, or espouse, any system of protective tariffs or bounties.
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.
If you want your New Year’s resolutions to be completed, take the steps needed to really commit to it.
Your life is in your own hands.
If seriously embraced, a blood and dirt conception of Americanness would destroy one of the most essential elements that make this country so successful and perhaps even its existence.
Those who feel guilt over material wealth and blame business for commercializing Christmas through ‘greedy’ profit seeking should pause and ask: “What is the standard of value by which we condemn material wealth and business?”
Descendants of founders are heirs; newcomers are employees. Both contribute, but only heirs embody the founder’s vision. Every nation has a core ethnic group—France has the French, Japan the Japanese. Why shouldn’t America acknowledge its Anglo-Protestant core? It’s a…
It is time to take the Christ out of Christmas, and turn the holiday into a guiltlessly egoistic, pro-reason, this-worldly, commercial celebration.
Ayn Rand described Thanksgiving as “a typically American holiday . . . its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers’ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of pro…
In the wilderness of the New World, the Plymouth Pilgrims had progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism.
Selling “The Big Lies” helps Hollywood to keep alive the fantasy that the Left is the victim rather than the perpetrator of injustice.
Underlying the political collectivism of the anti-Columbus crowd is a racist view of human nature.
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.
How money is created, how governments exploit the process to siphon your wealth, and what you must do to prosper in an era of financial repression.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk is not your garden-variety spasm of partisan idiocy or sectarian spite.
. Charlie Kirk was correct when he said, “When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence.” But it is even more accurate to say, as Ayn Rand pointed out, “When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of …
Frederick Douglass unique contribution to American political philosophy is well summarized in the contrast between the mottos he and Garrison used for their newspapers. Instead of Garrison’s call for separation, “no union with slaveholders,” Douglass demanded equa…
Defining words as a form of violence creates a permission structure for actual violence.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were pioneers.
On Labor Day, let us honor the true root of production and wealth: the human mind.
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 …
Capitalism can save us (and the planet) – if we let it.
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.
By Neal McCluskey for Cato The Trump administration is looking for federal spending to cut, which seems pretty urgent given the nation’s nearly $37 trillion debt. The US Department of Education (US ED), which is neither constitutional, competent, nor effective, is...
Why ‘Colorblindness’ on Race Matters More than Ever
Andrew Bernstein’s book is “among the best single presentations of the case for capitalism. (It is) amazingly good.” – Harry Binswanger
Parents must seize control of their children’s education from the “interlocking directorate” that is waging a war against children’s minds.
In a full, hour-long interview, Brook defends the marketplace and the self-interest that drives it. He also carves out the path of self-interest through mountains of big issues: war, poverty, immigration, drugs and children–even how self-interest is important for your …
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