Anti-Capitalists Bark Up The Wrong Tree

Capitalism is a system of freedom where the government’s only role is to protect the rights of individuals.

The Fed’s Fatal Conceit

In my experience, the Federal Reserve is guilty of what F. A. Hayek (1989) called “‘the fatal conceit”–that is, the belief that smart people can do the impossible. I don’t care how smart you are or how great your mathematical models are, you cannot coordinate the economic activity of seven billion people on this planet.

The Invisible Hand at Sea

The Azorean case shows that sustainability arises more from local responsibility than from distant centralized control.

Culture >

The Sinister Machine of Compassion

by Chip J

The distance between Canada’s savings projections for euthanasia across an aging population and Xinjiang’s harvesting is not moral. It is procedural.

Why Most Civilizations Fail, Part 3: The Choice Between Stasis and Infinity

What separates societies that generate knowledge from those that suppress it, and what does this mean for our future?

The Left’s War Against America and Western Civilization

The Left is at war with America. The Left is at war with the West. The Left is at war with the essential principles of Western Civilization.

Why Most Civilizations Fail, Part 2: Why Geographic Determinism Fails

Ultimate causation lies in ideas: why did some societies exploit their geographic advantages and others didn’t, and why did some overcome geographic disadvantages? Geography can’t answer those questions, but knowledge creation can.

Why Most Civilizations Fail, Part 1: The Island Paradox

Geography alone can’t explain why some isolated, resource-poor societies like Iceland thrived while others like Easter Island collapsed.

Ten Commandments Ruling Underscores That Progressives Need School Choice

While most people probably think of school choice as driven by conservatives who want education different from “woke” public schools, progressives need choice, too.

Law >

Fixing Airport Security Screening

by Cato Institute

Congress should hand over TSA’s screening operations to the nation’s airports, which could then contract them to expert private security firms.

The History of Thanksgiving: Thanks, Property Rights

This Thanksgiving, I give thanks for something our forebears gave us: property rights.

Can Trump legally send troops into our cities?

There are arguments on both sides, many of which are fact-specific and depend on constantly changing circumstances.

The Second Amendment: A Bulwark Against Tyranny in Modern America

The Second Amendment’s primary purpose—arming citizens as the ultimate check against government tyranny—remains both legally recognized and practically viable in modern America.

US Department of Justice’s Indictment of Former FBI Director James Comey

The nonpartisan reality is that it is too early to make a full assessment of the merits or demerits of the case.

Americans Must Remain Committed to Freedom of Speech After the Assassination of Charlie Kirk

Americans are grappling with the horrific assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Politics >

If Iran Closes The Strait of Hormuz to Some Ships, U.S. Should to All

by Alan Dershowitz

All go through, or nothing goes through.

DHS Administrative Warrants, ICE Immigration Arrests, and the Fourth Amendment

Can executive officials authorize themselves to enter a home? Or must they obtain a warrant from a judicial officer?

Decentralizing Public Health: Institutional Monopolies Are Fraying

It is ironic that the Trump administration, rightly, objects to the WHO’s mission creep and politicization but fails to see the same problem with the CDC in its own backyard.

The Worst Enemy of Black People According to Malcolm X

“The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have.” — Malcom X

How Not to Sell Free-Market Healthcare Ideas

Conceding the premise that if the government were only competent enough, it should be in charge of securing healthcare for everyone grants the moral high ground to those who want the government to take on a greater role in healthcare, making it harder to even imagine an alternative.

The Future of Liberty

Liberty is freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government

World >

Deregulation in Argentina: Javier Milei Takes “Deep Chainsaw” to Bureaucracy and Red Tape

by Cato Institute

Milei’s deregulations are cutting costs, increasing economic freedom, reducing opportunities for corruption, stimulating growth, and helping to overturn a failed and corrupt political system.

War Without Killing, Killing Without War

The U.S. has ample opportunity to kill bad guys while leaving good guys—American and Iranian—unharmed.

Iranian Theocracy on the Brink? Why Protesters Deserve Our Moral Support

Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate examine why Iran’s ongoing uprising may be the regime’s most serious challenge yet—and why it deserves far more moral support from the free world.

Now, or Never: Iran, Self-Defense, and the Moment That Does Not Return

The price of delay is not peace. It is escalation deferred. It is danger multiplied. It is a catastrophe postponed until it arrives in a form far worse than anything we are afraid of today.

Venezeula’s Oil and the Monroe Doctrine

The capture of former Venezuelan President Maduro was a tactical success that has laid the foundation for cutting off China and Cuba from Venezuelan oil, while also limiting the growing regional influence that China, Russia, Iran, and other adversarial nations have enjoyed in the Western hemisphere.

Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy

Sent by the president to Congress, the NSS articulates the administration’s national security vision and how the several elements of US power will be used in pursuit of national security goals.

Markets: Business & Economics >

US Shipbuilding and the Jones Act

by Cato Institute

US-built ships cost approximately five times as much as those constructed in South Korea.

No Excuse for Fraud in Minnesota

Combine an incompatible culture with socialist leadership in our government, and fraud is the result.

Silver is re-pricing, and it ain’t over yet

As a longterm “stacker”(saver) I am not selling my silver metal or mining positions. In my estimation the upside-to-downside risk ratio is still very positive.

Capitalism Works For People, If The Government Would Let It

Peter Thiel has it wrong. We don’t have capitalism but a statist mixed economy where statism is, and has been, the cause of the economic struggles of the Millennials.

Josh Hawley and Bernie Sanders’s Credit Card Caps Hurt the Poor

Like most political quick fixes, it is an economic prescription guaranteed to harm the very individuals it claims to protect.

Insights on The Benevolent Nature of Capitalism

By the “benevolent nature of capitalism,” I mean the fact that it promotes human life and well-being and does so for everyone.

Science & Technology >

The Real Meaning of Earth Hour

by Keith Lockitch

The lights of our cities and monuments are a symbol of human achievement, of what mankind has accomplished in rising from the cave to the skyscraper. Earth Hour presents the disturbing spectacle of people celebrating those lights being extinguished. Earth Hour symbolizes the renunciation of industrial civilization.