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The Radio Priest Is Back with a Podcast
Tucker Carlson did not arrive at “this is Israel’s war” through serious engagement with American foreign policy. He arrived there because the audience that would reward him for saying it became larger than the audience that would punish him. He read the room. He adjuste…
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.
“Ghost Student” Fraud, and Why Federal Student Aid Must Go
ABC News reported that “in California alone, nearly a third of all community college applicants in 2024 were identified as fraudulent.”
Law >
Fixing Airport Security Screening
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 >
Part II: The Campaign Against ICE
On the methods and purposes of the Democrat campaign of violence against U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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…
The Future of Liberty
Liberty is freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, ICE, and Illegal Immigration
ICE agents enforcing the law aren’t the threat to American values. The threat is the accumulated mass of people who broke the law to enter, refuse to assimilate, exploit systems meant for citizens, and vote for politicians who promise more of the same.
World >
The Nationally Televised Speech President Donald J. Trump Needs To Make on Iran
Here’s the speech that President Donald Trump ought to deliver in a nationally televised address.
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 enjo…
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.
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.
Markets: Business & Economics >
Jones Act Undermines U.S. National Security & Economy in Both War and Peace
If the Jones Act must be suspended to address national security emergencies, why do we keep it in place during times of peace? Why keep it around at all?
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.
End Emergency Tariffs
Trade policy, with all its consequences, belongs within the limits Congress established, not at the discretion of one officeholder.
Science & Technology >
The Latest AI Bill’s Five Major Flaws
AI bill proposal represents a dramatically different approach to President Trump’s vision that would heavily regulate the industry, hinder entrepreneurship, and restrict speech.
Congress’s new budget should eliminate all IRA “tax credits”
All the IRA “tax credits” are subsidies for inferior, often totally unprofitable forms of energy.
Celebrate Production & Science This Earth Day
Earth is just a place; it is not a supernatural organism that deliberately or consciously works to help us and therefore needs to be thanked.
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