CULTURE
The Most Important Thing the Founders Built Wasn’t the Constitution
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 st…
This Valentine’s Day Celebrate The True Meaning of Love
Love is far too precious to be offered indiscriminately. It is above all in the area of love that egalitarianism ought to be repudiated. Love represents an exalted exchange–a spiritual exchange–between two people, for the purpose of mutual benefit.
Books: Masculine Power, Feminine Beauty
Review of “Masculine Power, Feminine Beauty: The Volitional, Objective Basis for Heterosexuality in Romantic Love and Marriage” by Ronald Pisaturo
Inconvenient Historical Truths From ‘Black History Month’
A few historical and inconvenient notes left on the cutting room floor during Black History Month.
Making Resolutions Outlast January
As Ayn Rand put it, a value is something you act to gain or keep. A desire without action then is just a wish.
Why America’s Land Isn’t Stolen
What conquest built justified the conquest—not because the process was clean, but because the result expanded human freedom and flourishing beyond what existed before.
POLITICS
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.
Medical Guidance Shouldn’t Come From Washington
If there’s a silver lining, it’s that controversies like this may finally encourage clinicians, researchers, and patients to rely less on federal pronouncements and more on diverse, independent medical expertise.
The Death of Renee Good: When Ideology Overides Reason
This is not a story about a blameless victim. This is a story about ideology so divorced from reality that it sends people into dangerous confrontations apparently unprepared for obvious consequences.
Replacing “The Frigidity of Rugged Individualism with the Warmth of Collectivism” is To Replace Capitalism with Statism
Capitalism is a system of individualism that recognizes individual rights, and socialism is the system of collectivism, a doctrine that man has no right to live for his own sake, that the fruits of his labor belong to society, that he must serve society and the “colle…
Trump Promotes Regulatory Relief—Not Subsidies—as the Solution to Obamacare
The Congressional Budget Office found that Trump’s 2018 rule made comprehensive coverage available at premiums 60 percent below those of the cheapest Obamacare plans.
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian
Why Nazi Germany was a socialist state, not a capitalist one, and why socialism – an economic system based on government ownership of the means of production – requires a totalitarian dictatorship.
MARKETS
America’s Triage: On Trump’s Economic Nationalism
“You should not be dependent for that which is fundamental to your sovereignty on any other nation.”
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.
End Emergency Tariffs
Trade policy, with all its consequences, belongs within the limits Congress established, not at the discretion of one officeholder.
The Great Gold Reset: Why This Isn’t 1979 All Over Again
Throughout modern history, the story of gold has unfolded in cycles — crises, recoveries, and rediscoveries. But what’s happening now is not just another rally driven by inflation fears or a nostalgic nod to the 1970s. It’s the beginning of a structural reset — one…
Will Trump’s “State Capitalism … a Hybrid Between Socialism and Capitalism” Make America Great Again?
To be clear, Trump is not pursuing traditional socialism, where the means of production are owned by the state. Nor is he trying to copy exactly China’s state capitalism—but he is applying its methods with what the Journal calls “American characteristics.”
“A Gaslit Asset Class”
Even Bitcoin’s mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, knew of Bitcoin’s shortcomings.
WORLD
Khamenei Is Dead — A Historic Turning Point
Khamenei’s death is a tremendous act of justice to the countless people his regime tortured, kidnapped, raped, and murdered.
The Hazard of Doing Business with China – and What to Do About It
Moral, profit seeking businesses must be vigilant about the China risk; it is in their self-interest to compete and trade freely and not help authoritarian countries expand their control.
Hong Kong Convicts Freedom Fighter Jimmy Lai
The sham trial and conviction confirm Hong Kong’s tragic descent into tyranny.
Madeira: Europe’s Forgotten Miracle
More than a stunning tourist destination or the birthplace of Cristiano Ronaldo, Madeira is living proof that competitive tax policy can transform a remote, peripheral, resource-poor region into an economic success story.
Two Years of Milei: The Reform Agenda Moves Forward in Argentina
Today marks two years since Javier Milei took office as president of Argentina.
Optimism Is Back in Argentina
President Javier Milei’s clear victory on Sunday, October 26, over the opposition in the midterm elections, where he obtained almost 41% of the vote to 31% of the Peronists, was greeted with market euphoria.
LAW
The United States of America is Not a Democracy
If we’ve become a democracy, it would represent a deep betrayal of our founders, who saw democracy as another form of tyranny.
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.
Counterpoint: Was Jimmy Kimmel Censored?
Their real source of anger is the loss of yet another bureaucratic entitlement program, reminiscent of their hysterics amid DOGE cuts earlier this year. From the public airwaves to USAID to DEI contracts, the deep state and its media mouthpieces have enjoyed a long-stan…
Kimmel Suspension and Freedom of Speech
Government officials need not act directly to censor speech.
Why Broadcasters Still Have “Junior Varsity” First Amendment Rights
Networks and local affiliates try to avoid programming that might strike FCC regulators as misleading, tasteless, or shocking. The FCC has never disavowed its authority over content, and the sword of Damocles still hangs over every licensee.
SCI-TECH
Books: A Rebel in Eden: The War Between Individualism and Environmentalism
A Rebel in Eden: The War Between Individualism and Environmentalism, by Robert Bidinotto, explains the philosophic foundations of the modern political movement, theories that, in some cases, go back centuries.
Why We Should Celebrate Fossil Fuels on Earth Day
How human progress, and the use of fossil fuels, has made our environment cleaner and healthier.
The Earth and Civilization Have Been Saved By Fossil Fuels
In his 2022 book Fossil Future, Alex Epstein of the Center for Industrial Progress argues that fossil fuels are one of the greatest benefits to human civilization ever and that no viable substitutes exist, at least for now.
Alex Epstein’s Energy Freedom Plan
112 specific actions the new admin can take to unleash American energy
The Energy Freedom Plan: 25 Policy Changes to Unleash American Energy
It may seem impossible, but 4 years from now America can have Record oil and gas production Cheap, plentiful, reliable electricity High environmental quality” Low climate danger A nuclear renaissance For well over a year I’ve been working on an Energy Freedom…
Unleashing American Energy: America’s Silver Bullet
It’s said that in politics there’s no silver bullet that’ll make everything better. But we do have 1 silver bullet in the chamber: the opportunity to unleash American energy, which Donald Trump has rightly vowed to do.