In her pamphlet, Textbook of Americanism, Ayn Rand wrote that “[a]n individualist is a man who says: “I will not run anyone’s life—nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone—nor sacrifice anyone to myself.”
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 structure. It’s a practice. And practices die when people forget how to perform them.
Rachel Maddow monetizes liberal dread. Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens monetize your dread.
Americans have a rational self-interest in admitting people who will strengthen that protection and excluding people who will undermine it.
America’s first major defense against Iran is an absolutely rational act and a historic exemplar of the virtue of selfishness.
The Iranian people celebrating Israel and America weren’t just rejecting the Ayatollah. They were rejecting the entire architecture of ideological capture—the architecture the Western Left has been building at home.
The Iran Strikes Are Constitutional. That’s Not The Interesting Question.
The DEI terminology may not have disappeared entirely from business but the ideology (if it ever amounted to more than virtue signaling in corporate communications) has been extinguished.
Khamenei’s death is a tremendous act of justice to the countless people his regime tortured, kidnapped, raped, and murdered.
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