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.
CULTURE
Big Government Doesn’t Want You to Think about “What Is Not Seen”
In Build, Baby, Build, a graphic novel, Caplan uses Bastiat as a character in the present day to show us “what we’re missing”—what is not seen—when it comes to housing deregulation. I
Christians Fleeing Persecution Blocked from US Entry by Trump White House
On his first day as president, Trump signed an executive order to suspend the United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP), barring potentially thousands of Christian refugees from entering the United States.
NPR Should Not Be Subsidized by Taxpayers
It would not matter whether NPR was liberally biased or conservatively biased. The bottom line is that if politicians (bureaucrats) control the funding of the news, then the news likely will be politicized.
Disney’s Snow White and The Post-Lockdown Disorientation in the Arts
Disney has misread the room for a very long time, and seems implausibly slow to course correct. One might expect market signals would be enough to shock the internal culture of an enterprise. Ideology, however, can be more powerful than even failing profitability statements.
Tough Guy Detectives as Exemplars of Rugged Individualism
Individualism is the moral code recognizing that a human being is first, foremost, and always an autonomous being, a bodily and spiritual individual, not a nameless, faceless, fungible, easily replicable member of a tribe or collective.
Four Popular Movies Celebrating Business and Businessmen
It is refreshing to come across films in which profit-driven business is portrayed as benign and/or that show businessmen as heroes. Although such films are rare, they do exist and are often quite entertaining.
The Demonization of “White” English Harms Black Students
Is Learning Standard “White” English Oppressive for Black Students?
Film Review: A Complete Unknown
A Complete Unknown is a celebration of Bob Dylan’s songwriting genius.
Benjamin Graham and How to Invest Like a Legend
A new edition of the Intelligent Investor integrates Graham’s classic insights with today’s market realities.
MLK Day: The Wisdom of Thomas Sowell
One of the most distinguished intellectuals of his generation, Thomas Sowell’s classical-liberal worldview continues to challenge, inspire, and empower research across the social sciences.
More Reason and Freedom in 2025
To use reason to produce, trade and maximize profits, businesses require freedom.
The Pork Barrel Politics of the Department of Education
The department is designed to provide material and political benefits to the teachers’ unions, not to improve student outcomes.
The Business of the News Media
What should be the purpose of the news media?
The Genealogy of Woke: Foucault’s War on Truth and Knowledge
Cultural movements do not spring out of a vacuum. The woke movement is the cultural manifestation of the underlying philosophy of postmodernism.
Millennials for Communism
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.”
America’s Evolution Away From Founding Values
Why America’s Founders Didn’t Want a Democracy
The Meaning of Americanism: What America Is by C. Bradley Thompson
Review of “What America Is: The Moral Logic of the American Revolution and Other Essays” by C. Bradley Thompson (2023).
Hamas Protests on Campus Reveal a Moral Flaw in our Universities
For Israel, the issue is: keep fighting or die. Our universities and intellectuals should continue to support them.
Review of Brad DeLong’s Book “Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century”
Berkeley economist Brad DeLong has an exceptional ability to get just about everything on the 20th century fantastically wrong in his book “Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century.”
Who Will Defend Jonathan Yudelman?
There is a clear double standard going on here, which the Left is expert at exploiting.
Fascist Franklin Roosevelt’s Bogus Economic Bill of Rights
Not one of these “rights” can be provided to anyone without some other American reduced in his freedom.
The Heart of a Cheetah: How We Have Been Lied to About African Poverty — and What that Means for Human Flourishing
In contrast to those who believe that experts can engineer progress for Africa, Magatte Wade argues that what is needed is deregulation, entrepreneurship, and investment.
The Double Standard on Freedom of Speech and Racism at American Universities Like Columbia
Universities cannot morally punish anti-black racism while tolerating anti-Jewish racism, even if the First Amendment protects both.
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