Louis XIV had hundreds of servants who prepared him dinner. Today, my supermarket offers me a buffet Louis XIV couldn’t imagine. Thanks to trade and property rights and markets, each of us lives as if we had more servants than kings.
CULTURE
Holodomor: Ukraine Famine of 1933 was a Government-Made Disaster
The ten worst famines of the 20th century could all be attributed directly or indirectly to government policies.
Three Books on the Covid/Lockdown Catastrophe
“Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History” by Steven Deace, “Lockdowns on Trial” by Michael Betrus, and “When Politicians Panicked” by John Tamny.
Why We Need Heroes
Flourishing human life requires heroes.
Woke Colleges
Critics claim the tests are culturally biased and say that’s why Blacks and Latinos don’t score as well. But that doesn’t explain why Asians do so well. In fact, Asians get the best SAT scores.
A Declaration and Constitution for a Free Society
Making the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution Fully Consistent with the Protection of Individual Rights.
The Woke Awards: Racial Quotas Cheapen Oscar Awards
Today’s award shows aren’t about recognizing what’s best. They’re about pleasing the left.
Higher Education Corruption: The Dangers of a College Education
Without a separation of school and state, the madness will continue.
The Spread of Education Before Compulsion: Britain and America in the 19th Century
Government Education Increased Bureaucracy and Reduced Liberty
Socialism-in-Practice Was a Nightmare, Not Utopia
Listening to some in American academia and on social media, you would think that socialism was a bright, new, and shiny idea never tried before that promises a beautiful future of peace, love, and bountifulness for all. It is as if a hundred years of socialism-in-practi…
The Case for Capitalism
Henry Hazlitt’s 1949 review of Ludwig Von Mises’ Human Action
George Washington’s Warning about Alienating ‘Any Portion of Our Country from the Rest’
Many have embraced the fatal disunity of factions, putting liberty in extreme peril.
How Big Government Broke Higher Education: The Student Loan Bubble, Explained
All evidence points to government-subsidization as the real culprit behind rising tuition costs.
America Needs a Leader Like George Washington
America needs to rediscover the Founders’ commitment to individual rights.
Religious Left and Right Quibble Over Human Carnage, But Agree to Keep Hating Capitalism
For religious reasons, mainly, conservatives like Dennis Prager are unable to defend capitalism. They share more premises with socialists-fascists than they admit, yet rightly recognize them as fellow religionists.
The Joy of Football: The Super Bowl Offers a Too-Rare Celebration of Goal-Achievement
The essential value of spectator sports lies in their capacity to illustrate, in a dramatic way, the process of human goal-achievement.
The Left is Vastly More Evil than Religious Conservatives
The worst of Christianity was the Dark Ages. Its best was the Medieval Renaissance. The worst of collectivism was Auschwitz, gulags, and 120 million civilians murdered in a century. There is no best.
Highly Rated Documentary ‘Uncle Tom’ Blacklisted by Hollywood
Of the last 10 Oscar winners for Best Documentary, none has a higher IMDb rating than “Uncle Tom.” None. Only one matched its 8.9 rating. See you at the Academy Awards?
When Public School Teachers Unions Win, Students, Parents, and Taxpayers Lose
It’s revealing that government-run schools fight to stay closed, while most businesses — private schools, restaurants, hair salons, gyms, etc., fight to be allowed to open.
Is Truth Irrelevant?
Who cares about facts anymore, in this age of indoctrination?
Introduction to How to Be Profitable and Moral By Jaana Woiceshyn
An excerpt from the Introduction to How to Be Profitable and Moral By Jaana Woiceshyn.
Five Times in 2020 When The New York Times Accidentally Told the Truth
The paper of record in 2020 shifted dramatically to the most illiberal stance possible on the virus, pushing for full lockdowns, and ignoring or burying any information that might contradict the case for this unprecedented experiment in social and economic control.
2020’s Good News
“We have this tendency, for good reasons, to focus on problems, because that’s our way of solving problems,” says Norberg. “But then there’s the risk that we’ll just despair and think it’s hopeless and we give up. That’s not the solution to our problems.
Santa’s Naughty and Nice Christmas List
Who should be on Santa’s naughty and nice lists this Christmas?
“Great Spirits” versus “Useful Idiots”
How was I to resolve the irreconcilable dilemma between my passionate love for scholarship and my gut-wrenching disappointment with those American intellectuals who condoned communist crimes?
Eulogy for Dad
Teaching was his passion. It was his gift. It was, second only to his family, his greatest love.
Remembering Walter Williams, Friend and Mentor
RIP, Professor Walter E. Williams. Thank you for gracing the world with your presence.
Untangling The ‘Gay Pride’ and ‘Black Pride’ Package Deal
I was recently asked if I thought “Black Pride,” “Gay Pride” and other forms of ethnic pride were legitimate.
Walter E. Williams 1936-2020
Walter Williams (1936-2020) “was my best friend for half a century. There was no one I trusted more or whose integrity I respected more.” – Thomas Sowell
Michael Sandel’s Tyranny of the “Common Good”
Sandel’s bottom line: you did not earn anything. It is all determined or blind luck. Sandel’s goal is to induce unearned guilt in everyone who does well in life.
The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Crisis into a Catastrophe
COVID-19 doomsday predictions should have been received with skepticism.
Private Property’s Harvest
Yes, we’ve got the pandemic, lockdowns, a worsening deficit, etc. But we still live in a relatively free country at the most prosperous time in human history.
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