POLITICS

The single organization most responsible for paving young Americans’ way to socialism: the Republican Party.

The end goal of our planning paternalists is the command economy, the government-directed market, with all businesses required to follow the planner’s investment and employment directives and, presumably, be subject to some type of punishment if the imposed targets...

In his book "Discrimination and Disparities," economist Thomas Sowell notes that a disproportionate percentage of first-born siblings become National Merit scholars compared to siblings born later, presumably because the first-born starts life with no sibling...

Socialism promises a utopia that sounds good, but those promises are never realized. It most often results in massive human suffering.

Those who have seen the 1982 Steven Spielberg movie Poltergeist may remember the scene when the little girl touches the snowy screen of her family’s television and says, “They’re here,” meaning the evil ghostly forces bringing death and destruction. Well, they are...

Conservatives won’t defend capitalism because they won’t defend its morality, rational egoism, and won’t defend that morality because they’re wedded to religion and its ethic of altruism.

Apart from the fact that the Schumer-Trump proposal is double the Obama price tag, the answer is: very little.

Another partial federal government “shutdown” began on December 22, 2018. The impression from the media and other commentaries easily suggested that the political and economic sky was about to fall. Various government departments were closed and some government...

Socialists like Bernie Sanders tell us that "the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer." That's a lie. Yes, rich people got absurdly rich. Last year, says Oxfam, "the wealth of the world's billionaires increased (by) $2.5 billion a day." I say, so what? The poor...

The famous New York Yankees baseball player and manager Yogi Berra is credited with the saying “It's déjà vu all over again.” He is also credited with claiming, “I really didn’t say everything I said.” Never were both of these truer than in our era of reborn defenses...

Let’s examine the history of socialism.

Capitalism operates to raise wages, shorten hours, end child labor, and improve working conditions.

Venezuelans who escaped their country’s socialism understand now that socialism creates poverty.

Freedom and the free society are once again under direct attack by those who espouse far-greater degrees of government control over people’s lives. Wrapping themselves in the cloak of progressivism, “social justice,” and liberation from oppression and discrimination,...