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 structure. It’s a practice. And practices die when people forget how to perform them.

The Self Under Siege: What Ayn Rand’s Epic Novel “The Fountainhead” Shows Us About the Societies We Build

Ayn Rand built five main characters in The Fountainhead who function as psychological archetypes, but her real achievement was more precise than that. She mapped five distinct textures of subjective experience that emerge from a single upstream choice: where does the self live?

Thinkers vs. Ragers: Epstein, Kirk, Iran—Same Grift, Different Day

Rachel Maddow monetizes liberal dread. Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens monetize your dread.

WAR WITH IRAN

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WORLD

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.

Justice in Caracas

Venezuela has a chance at revival. America has removed a security threat. And autocrats everywhere just learned that no palace provides immunity from justice.

LAW

Miami Permit Takings

Chad Trausch and his wife’s family was growing, so he decided to expand his Miami home. But when he submitted plans for a two-bedroom, two-bathroom addition, the city came back with a strange request: it wanted half his front yard.

POLITICS

Put More Drugs Over the Counter

If the president and Congress follow through on the promise to shift more prescription drugs to pharmacies’ over-the-counter sections, they will make medicines cheaper and more accessible—but, more importantly, they will return a measure of control over health care to patients themselves, where it belongs.

CULTURE

Left Can’t Meme

Richard Dawkins coined “meme” in 1976 to describe units of cultural transmission—ideas that replicate like genes.

MARKETS

SCI-TECH

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