The system of public education could be abolished over the course of a generation, in a way that need not impose financial hardship on the parents of any child alive at the time of the abolition’s commencement.
SCIENCE
Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical (particularly epistemological) base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go. – AYN RAND
The Invisible Hand at Sea
The Azorean case shows that sustainability arises more from local responsibility than from distant centralized control.
Tech Companies and Mental Health Harms of Social Media
Tech companies are not legally liable for the anxiety and depression of the users of their social media platforms – but they bear moral responsibility for the harms on children caused by their algorithms.
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.
The Coward’s Epistemology
The future on offer is extraordinary. That should make us angry—genuinely, productively angry—that a coward’s epistemology is positioned to foreclose it.
The Real Meaning of Earth Hour
The lights of our cities and monuments are a symbol of human achievement, of what mankind has accomplished in rising from the cave to the skyscraper. Earth Hour presents the disturbing spectacle of people celebrating those lights being extinguished. Earth Hour symbolizes the renunciation of industrial civilization.
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.
Increasing Energy Costs Isn’t the Answer
Net-zero mandates are delivering present economic pain for unmeasurable and far-off climate gain.
The Rise and Fall of Wikipedia
The rise of Wikipedia was spectacular, implausible, and glorious. Its fall is equally disappointing, predictable, and inglorious.
Books: A Rebel in Eden: The War Between Individualism and Environmentalism
A Rebel in Eden: The War Between Individualism and Environmentalism, by Robert Bidinotto, explains the philosophic foundations of the modern political movement, theories that, in some cases, go back centuries.
The National Academies’ Perversion of Science
A new “report” by the prestigious National Academies engages in heavy fossil fuel benefit denial in order to claim that climate danger is worse than ever.
“Greenwashing” and the Anatomy of Compromise
As Ayn Rand explains in her short essay The Anatomy of Compromise, compromising rational principles never works.
Science As an Excuse
How we find ourselves again in the awkward position of having trusted the experts and discovering that this was not a good idea.
How to Unleash Small Modular Reactors
Testimony to the House Oversight Committee on “The New Atomic Age: Advancing America’s Energy Future.”
The Inventive Period of Capitalism in America
The so-called “Gilded Age” of “Robber Barrons” is better named as the Inventive Period of Capitalism.
Green New Scam
The House BBB’s “termination” of solar/wind subsidies is overly generous, contrary to lobbyist lies.
The Case for EV Freedom
Government should remove all preferences for electric vehicles and allow them to compete and grow on a free market. This will enable EVs to reach their full potential to provide affordable, no-tailpipe-emissions transport without harming consumers or the grid.
Blaming SARS-CoV-2 on Bats in Wet Markets: A Look Back at Fauci’s Great Spillover Hoax
Why precisely were Anthony Fauci and his cohorts so anxious to blame SARS-CoV-2 on bats and later pangolins in wet markets?
The Nvidia Way: How Nvidia Became the Most Valuable Company in History
The Nvidia “way” is Tae Kim’s attempt to characterize what makes Nvidia different from other companies. He identifies three components: a strive for excellence, hiring practicesm and generous and widespread stock programs.
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.
Alex Epstein’s Energy Freedom Plan
112 specific actions the new admin can take to unleash American energy
The Energy Freedom Plan: 25 Policy Changes to Unleash American Energy
It may seem impossible, but 4 years from now America can have Record oil and gas production Cheap, plentiful, reliable electricity High environmental quality” Low climate danger A nuclear renaissance For well over a year I’ve been working on an Energy Freedom...
Unleashing American Energy: America’s Silver Bullet
It’s said that in politics there’s no silver bullet that’ll make everything better. But we do have 1 silver bullet in the chamber: the opportunity to unleash American energy, which Donald Trump has rightly vowed to do.
Why I Strongly Support Chris Wright for Secretary of Energy
President-elect Donald Trump tapped Chris Wright to lead the Department of Energy and to sit on a new “National Energy Council.”
Bad Forest Management, and Not Climate Change, is the Root Cause of California Fires
The solution to dangerous, out-of-control wildfires in California is addressing the root cause: “excess fuel load” from bad forest management. Focusing on climate change, a minor variable that we have no near-term control over, is a craven political ploy.
Argentina Withdrew its Delegation and Other Issues from COP29
President Milei is now considering announcing a formal withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and has referred to the so-called climate crisis as “another Socialist lie.”
Objectivist Energy Expert Alex Epstein Fact Checks Democrat Kamala Harris on Fracking and Energy Freedom
Myth: Kamala Harris used to be for banning fracking, but now she supports fracking. Truth: Kamala Harris is still for banning fracking—because she is still for the net-zero agenda that requires banning fracking along with all other fossil fuel activities. Kamala...
The Great Barrington Declaration
Four years ago today, with Sunetra Gupta and Dr J Bhattacharya, and Martin Kulldorf published the The Great Barrington Declaration, advocating focused protection instead of school closures and other lockdowns.
12 Myths that government-dictated green energy is cheaper than fossil fuels
A guide for those watching today’s House Budget Committee hearing, where I will be testifying.
Fossil Energy vs. Green Energy
Why replacing fossil energy with green energy cannot stop global warming and why it will wreck the US economy.
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