The decades-long erosion of IP rights can be traced back to Google’s acquisition of YouTube in 2006.
POLITICS
The Original Sin of US Health Policy
This “tax exclusion” for employer-sponsored health insurance is the original sin of US health policy.
Should the Federal Government Subsidize Family Caregivers of Older Americans?
Eliminating immigration, licensing and other regulatory obstacles would expand access to high-quality, affordable home care without costing taxpayers a penny.
On Jay Bhattacharya’s Confirmation As Secretary of the National Institutes of Health
The previous administration specifically targeted Jay Bhattacharya, calling him a “fringe epidemiologist” and sought to censor his opinions. This quiet academic who stood up for principle when it mattered has found himself picked to head the world’s most powerful scientific agency.
DOGE Wars
On the aggressive, emotional, and irrational response of the Democrats and their allies on “the left” to Trump’s DOGE campaign.
Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA)
The government has been taking away people’s rights to make their own health decisions for 90 years without ever studying whether its interventions are benefiting patients.
Canada’s Ailing National Healthcare Is Not a Model for America
Despite a population of 40 million, there are only 432 MRI machines in Canada. The US has more than 13,000. Long wait times are the symptom of a deep problem.
Portraying CEOs as Cartoon Villains
It is not the corporate CEOs who deserve to be blamed: statist governments are the real villains.
America Would Suffer Under RFK Jr.
Kennedy says he is not anti-vaccine but merely “asking uncomfortable questions.”
Make Health Savings Accounts Work for Everyone
Increase HSA contribution limits so nearly all workers could deposit 100 percent of what their employer pays toward health benefits tax‐free into an HSA.
The Big Freeze at HHS, CDC, and NIH
One Health, as newly embraced by the CDC, amounts to a radical transformation of the basis of social order itself, under the guidance of god-like scientists who alone know how to structure the best life for all living things, even if that comes at the expense of human flourishing.
The United Healthcare CEO Murder and the Right to Health Care
People are shocked at the murder of the United Healthcare CEO and those who support the actions of the murderer. They rightfully denounce the murderer and those who support him. However, no one has identified the fundamental reason why many people think the murder is justified.
An Open Letter to President Trump
Congratulations to you. In no particular order, here are some public policy recommendations.
Industrial Policy, Whether Republican or Democrat, Is Anti-Liberty
Although the incoming Trump administration says it will cut taxes, reduce regulations, and slash wasteful government spending—all of which are good things—it also intends to enact an industrial policy to bolster US manufacturing, using interventionist tools such as tariffs, subsidies, Buy American rules, and similar commands—all of which are bad things and inherently anti-liberty.
Corporate DEI: Doomed To Fail
Besides abandoning DEI programs, what should companies do then if they want to achieve long-term success?
Reform, Not Revenge, Is the Path to a Freer, Fairer Healthcare Market
Critics who applaud violence against executives like Brian Thompson misunderstand how the healthcare system operates — and seem content to wallow in those adolescent misapprehensions.
The Revolution of 2024
Are elections capable of delivering real results?
End NATO Expansion and Bring Americans Back Home
President George Washington was right then, and he is right now. Let’s end NATO expansion and bring the boys back home.
Argentina President Javier Milei’s Free-Market ‘Shock Therapy’ Is Working
Argentina’s budget cuts have generated eye-popping results: lower inflation, higher wages, and the nation’s first budget surplus in 12 years.
To Protect Service Members and Honor Veterans, Reform the VA
Privatization of the Veterans Health Administration would improve health care for veterans and nonveterans alike.
Censorship and the Criminalization of Election Integrity
“Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” –Jimmy Carter, 2005
Anti-Trumpites for Trump
Harris is the most anti-American Progressive that has ever gained the nomination of a major political party in American history.
A Conversation with Leonard Peikoff About the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
The world’s leading expert on Ayn Rand’s philosophy Objectivism, founder of the Ayn Rand Institute, Leonard Peikoff, speaks with James Valliant about Donald Trump and why he is voting against anti-American Progressive Democrat Kamala Harris.
The Fraudulent Elections in Georgia
The people of Georgia, among the most wonderful in the world, are being let down by their own country’s appeasement of Russia.
Unreal(ized) Capital Gains Tax: an Economic Earthquake In the Making
A tax on unrealized capital gains constitutes an end-run on rights of private property and subverts fundamental market principles by taxing assets not yet sold or converted into income.
Counting on FEMA is a Second Disaster
By decentralizing disaster relief, we can build a system that is more effective and more in line with the principles of federalism and limited government — principles that have been proven to lead to greater prosperity for all.
Clarity on the Morality of Capitalism
The moral code capitalism rests on is rational egoism, first identified by Aristotle and further developed by others, most extensively by Ayn Rand.
There Are Not 13,099 Illegal Immigrant Murderers Roaming Free on American Streets
Commentators focused on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) letter claim that ICE did not detain 13,099 migrants convicted of homicide, tended to misunderstand the data.
The Gold Standard, Not Price Controls, Can End Rising Prices
The Republicans need to show that (1) the Democrats, not businessmen, are responsible for rising prices and that (2) what is needed to end rising prices is not price controls but the gold standard.
Taylor Swift, Brittany Mahomes, Politics, and the Value of Friendship
The idea that Taylor Swift, who on Tuesday endorsed Kamala Harris for president, should purge from her life people, like Brittany Mahomes, who don’t share her political beliefs is not a healthy or enlightened one.
Alex Epstein’s Summer Talking Points: Gasoline Prices
Any politician who supports the “net zero” agenda is working to make gasoline prices much higher.
In Defence of Big Business
The failure to distinguish between economic power and political power leads people to believe that large corporations have grown through coercion.
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