The Vietnam War by Ken Burns on PBS: Flawed, But Compelling
The Vietnam War, a 10-part series for PBS which aired in 2017, is flawed, biased and incomplete. It is also a compelling and important examination of the Southeast Asia war America lost.
Hazony’s Tradition-Based Society Is Social Engineering
At any moment in time, the world seems to be going to hell in a handbasket. Manners are missing; ethics are being eliminated; culture is corrupted; social attitudes are supercilious; virtues are vanishing; literature is mostly licentious; industry and commerce are...Laissez Faire vs. Interventionism
In eighteenth-century France the saying laissez faire, laissez passer was the formula into which some of the champions of the cause of liberty compressed their program. Their aim was the establishment of the unhampered market society. In order to attain this end they...Capitalism is the Solution to the Problem of “Asymmetric Information”
It is capitalism and the competitive market process that generates solutions to the knowledge problems of the society, including the “informational asymmetry” that naturally follows from any developed social system of division of labor.
Senator Kamala Harris “Wins” the Milking Taxpayers for “Free Stuff” Contest
While Trump’s $267 billion is bad, the Democrats’ plans are worse. We counted $297 billion proposed by Biden, $690 billion from Buttigieg, $3.8 trillion from Warren, $4 trillion from Sanders and $4.3 trillion from Harris.
Being a Racist Is Easy Today
When leftists have no other winning argument, they falsely accuse others of racism.
What’s the Deal with the Green New Deal?
There’s been a lot of talk about The Green New Deal. Beyond the headlines, what is it really? Given our energy needs, is it practical? Can we have an abundance of energy and a clean planet? Alex Epstein, the author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, considers these...Laffer Gets Laughable
While the willingness to abandon long held beliefs for political gain has always been a common trait among public figures, the spectacle has recently taken on shocking levels of casual audacity. The contempt for even minimal levels of intellectual consistency has...Trump Puts The Nail In The Tea Party Coffin
The Trump sanctioned agreement to suspend the debt ceiling and push annual deficits even further above the trillion dollar mark may only succeed in destroying the Republican Party as we know it.
CAPITALISM REVIEW
- Birds of a Collectivist Feather Flock Together
- Say Yes To Data Centers
- Verifying Universal Mail In Ballots
- Chip Joyce: Fauci Document Archive
- George Reisman: Western civilization is open to everyone
- Tracinski Loses Congressional Bid in Virginia
- Minnesota ICE Resistance: Creating a powder keg of citizen vs. federal law enforcement
- Shooting of Renee Good: Irresponsible to Immediately Proclaim This a Murder
- America Last: Fuentes’s Prime Supporters are Foreign Bots That Boost His Influence
- America is Not Fundamentally a Christian Nation
- “Warm Collectivism” vs. “Frigid” Individualism
- CNN Scott Jennings on the “epidemic of political vigilantism”