POLITICS

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,...

Far more important than a debate about the relative practicality, efficiency, or productiveness of capitalism and socialism is a debate about their relative moral merits.

The only people who benefit from class warfare are politicians and the elite; they get our money and control our lives.

What we live under is a heavily regulated, managed and controlled interventionist-welfare state that operates not by free-market competition but political cronyism.

The philosophy of individualism is the foundation of a free society; it is the basis of a community of men that does not require or demand the sacrifice or enslavement of some for the one-sided benefits of others.

Indeed, democracy and freedom are frequently heralded as being synonyms. An important question, however, is, What do these concepts mean, and are they in fact synonymous?