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.
CULTURE
A Review of Liz Cheney’s book Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
Edwin Locke’s summary and review of Liz Cheney’s book Oath and Honor.
Effective Egoism: An Individualist’s Guide to Pride, Purpose, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Watkins argues that since you have only one life and it’s for you to live, you should make it the best possible: a life in which you pursue your long-term happiness. Effective Egoism describes how to do that.
“Context Matters”
For Harvard President Gay, context apparently matters only for genocidal threats against Jews.
Hamas’ Useful Idiots
The protests are exclusively anti-Israel, anti-American, pro-Hamas, and pro-terrorism.
Muslim Lives Matter
Does a dead Muslim baby matter less if she was killed by a Muslim than by a Jew?
How Socialists Hijacked The Word “Liberal”
In the 19th century, liberalism was identified with the belief in and the defense of individual liberty in various spheres of life.
Harvard President Claudine Gay Should Resign
In her testimony last week, Gay defended her refusal to punish students who call for genocide against Jews by asserting that “we embrace a commitment to full expression.”
Claudine Gay’s Double Standard on Freedom of Speech Renders Her Unfit To Lead Harvard
It was no surprise to me that Harvard was ranked dead last among major universities in supporting free speech.
End All Government-Backed Student Loan Programs
The solution is to end the government’s involvement in every aspect, and that includes putting an end to all government-backed student loans.
George Washington: America’s Most Indispensable Veteran
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.
Trans Child Abuse: “Gender-Affirming Care” for Children
How is permanently altering a child’s body based on the child’s “feelings” not child abuse?
After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics―and How to Fix It by Will Bunch
A “free college” prescription would take us in precisely the wrong direction.
School Choice and Property Rights
Parents are forced to provide financial support for government schools, and this often leaves no money available to purchase an alternative education service.
America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The actual injustice is that America has sold out the region’s only free society, Israel—along with freedom-seeking people across the Middle East and among the Palestinian community—while empowering jihadist forces.
Books: “Social Justice Fallacies” by Thomas Sowell
“Many assumptions and phrases in the social justice literature are repeated endlessly, without any empirical test,” making it the “seemingly invincible fallacy at the heart of the social justice vision.”
Russia and the Pope
The Pope must mercilessly condemn Putin’s Russia as a country of pure evil.
Parental Rights in Education: The Fundamental Issue of Our Time
Do parents have an unalienable right to determine how, in what, and by whom their children will be educated, or should the government have that right?
After Covid: Twelve Challenges for a Shattered World
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.
Cuba’s Eternal Revolution Through the Prism of Insurgency, Socialism, and Espionage
Cuba’s Eternal Revolution Through the Prism of Insurgency, Socialism, and Espionage relates much about Cuba’s history that needs to be known, and disabuses readers of the carefully cultivated idea that Cuba has turned into a tropical paradise due to socialism.
Schools Should be Accountable to Parents and Students
Expanding the government’s education monopoly will not achieve that goal. Expanding freedom of choice will. Freedom of choice will empower parents and students to hold schools accountable.
Self-Sacrifice Is Evil, Self-Interest Is Good
Rational self-interest is good, including when used to help others whom you value, but true altruism (as opposed to helping valued others) works against human life and happiness.
The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance
The New Deal was completely unnecessary economically.
John Locke, The U.S. Constitution and the General Welfare
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.
The Illusion of Determinism: Sam Harris’ Aborted Attempt to Refute Free Will
Free will cannot be proven because it is the foundation of any proof of anything. It is determinism and not free will that is an illusion.
Mutual Egoism: The Key To a Rational Relationship
Each partner personally values the other because they possess admirable qualities, such as integrity, and they share common values and interests.
Capitalism at a Crossroads: 1875-1900
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.
Free Will Is No Illusion
Free will is, thus, an axiom of epistemology. It is self-evident to introspection and cannot be refuted without contradiction.
The Borderline Case: When Does Art Stop Being Art?
Where does the line between art and “non-art” lie? At what point does a creation cease to be justifiably called art?
Subsidies and Government Schools
If rural Texans want government schools, then they should be willing to pay for them. Nobody is stopping them from making voluntary contributions to their local schools. They aren’t doing that because they would prefer to force others to “contribute” to their caus…
Are Intellectual Ability Tests Biased?
IQ should not be confused with actual learning or the acquisition of knowledge.
A Declaration of Independence from Tyrannical Government
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.”
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