POLITICS

Most reporters don’t like free markets, and politicians rarely talk about change they don’t control.

The Trump sanctioned agreement to suspend the debt ceiling and push annual deficits even further above the trillion dollar mark may only succeed in destroying the Republican Party as we know it.

American “nationalism,” if we are to call it this, is neither identity-politics socialism nor this newly proclaimed “conservative” national socialism. It was, and should be, an allegiance to individual liberty and unlimited economic freedom of trade and association for all things peaceful.

“[T]he political system is most conducive to the public good in which the rightful liberty of the individual is least abridged.”

How a political push to justify increased taxation has afflicted the entire economic inequality debate.

Keep in mind what “progressive” means in this political context: an increase in the size, scope, and cost of government in American society.

Instead of assuming that we’re in the midst of a surging inequality crisis, we should first settle more fundamental issues affecting the accuracy of our measurements over the past century.

The freebies approach to political campaigning and policymaking brazenly panders to mooching and, by expanding the size, scope, and power of government, also institutionalizes looting. As politicians today assert, so loudly and sanctimoniously, that things like food,...

America will do best if we remember that the Declaration of Independence talks about “limited” government and reminds us that every individual has inalienable rights.