Capitalism Must Be Defended at the Moral Level

Don’t let those who support socialism take the moral high ground because their morality is wrong.

Humans Must Choose Egoism: An Excerpt from Andrew Bernstein’s Captalist Solutions

The key to Ayn Rand’s version of rational egoism lies in understanding the nature of values, and the role they play in human life.

Charity Won’t Eradicate Poverty – Freedom Will

Instead of the “selfishness and greed” of wealthy producers, evidence shows that the fundamental cause of poverty is lack of freedom.

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 >

Deep vs. Shallow Regime Change in Politics, Money, and Schooling

by Richard M Salsman

America’s Declaration of Independence demanded radical political change but also reminded rebels that the virtue of “prudence will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.”

A Transformative President: The Meaning of The Presidency of Donald J. Trump

Greatness, in the presidential sense, means transformation—not moral perfection.

What a Rational Immigration System Actually Looks Like

Americans have a rational self-interest in admitting people who will strengthen that protection and excluding people who will undermine it.

President Donald Trump on War on Iran

Iran can never have a nuclear program. We will annihilate their every army and missile industry.

How Congress Can Fix the Debt Crisis (Before It’s Too Late)

By 2036, interest costs, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are projected to consume 100 percent of federal revenues.

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?

World >

Switzerland’s Case for Decentralization

by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes

The Swiss example shows that European centralization is neither inevitable nor indispensable, nor is it the path to prosperity.

Black History Month: Why Don’t They Teach About the Arab-Muslim Slave Trade in Africa?

Black history is American history. It ought not be “relegated” to a month, and slavery ought not be relegated to only the European slave trade.

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.

Markets: Business & Economics >

The Myth That Foreigners Pay Our Tariffs

by Donald J. Boudreaux

The costs of tariffs are always shared — and domestic citizens inevitably bear a significant portion of the burden.

Deposit Insurance Myths: The Glass-Steagall Act and The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

That deposit insurance wasn’t the only way to keep a banking system from collapsing was evident enough in 1933 from other countries’ experiences.

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.

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.