One hour and ten minutes of reducing socialism to a dumb idea that ignores history, human nature, economics and what’s right. Other than that, I guess it’s OK.
Read MoreThe Poison of Presentism →
Presentism is fraught with arrogance. It presumes that present-day attitudes didn’t evolve from earlier ones but popped fully formed from nowhere into our superior heads.
Read MoreMaking Marx Proud: Today's Campus Lunacy →
Millions of American students today are stewed in Marxist ideas, and we are financing it.
Read MoreThe Most Violent White House Demonstration Ever →
When Clay realized his own life-long lust for the presidency would never materialize, he famously declared in a speech to the Senate, “I would rather be right than be President.” Time and again, he was neither.
Read MoreA Centennial That All Who Love Freedom Should Celebrate →
Thanks to this Polish victory, there would be no Bolshevik Western Europe.
Read MoreVote by Mailman? No Thanks →
If mass mail-in voting takes hold in this country, we can add yet another of our hard-won rights to the growing pile we don’t much care for anymore.
Read MoreThe Swedish Nightingale →
She earned more in a minute than Karl Marx did in a lifetime, and her followers killed nobody.
Read MoreGratitude for Local Papers →
The presence of a locally focused newspaper enhances civic engagement and the cohesiveness of a community. That’s important enough that the subscription price seems to me to be one of the best bargains in town.
Read MoreTTD: Trade, Tolerance and Decentralization, Three Keys to a Country's Success →
It’s my thesis that for a country to be “successful” for a considerable period—success being defined loosely here as economically prosperous, politically stable, and militarily defensible—it must possess substantial TTD.
Read MoreThe Brit Who Dumped Socialism →
Ivor Thomas came to understand that, in his words, "The prime fact of human nature which the wise statesman must take into account is that men will exert themselves for their own benefit, or for that of their families, regarded as an extension of themselves, as they will exert themselves for no one else.”
Read MoreSlavery in Historical Context →
Did your history teacher tell you any of this?
Read MoreGeorge Washington Carver, Lover of Natural Things →
In a letter to a friend in 1930, Carver wrote, “I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations through which God speaks to us every day, every hour and every moment of our lives, if we will only tune in.”
Read MoreYou Lucky Americans →
Liberty is our most precious possession, because it is the blessing that begets all other blessings: human dignity, decency, prosperity, and more.
Read MoreA Man Who Deserves His Statues →
The name of Robert Peel deserves the admiration of good people everywhere, not only on this anniversary of his death, but forever.
Read MoreA Grotesque Lie →
London’s Express newspaper reported that high-ranking British Labour Party politician John McDonnell told an interviewer, “I still see Jesus as a socialist.” McDonnell is a moron or a deceiver, or likely both.
Read MoreFree Market Environmentalism →
A new book explores how property rights and free markets are good for the environment.
Read MoreThe Professor in the Peruvian Prison →
He preached Marxism in the classroom, now he gets to preach it to himself behind prison bars. The wasted life of a nutty professor.
Read MoreOn Wealth and Socialism →
Wealth and inequality: Debunking Myths about Socialism. Patrick Donohoe interviews me on TheWealthStandard.com.
Read MoreThe Control Freaks in Our Midst →
It may be harder for a socialist to get to Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.
Read MoreEzra Taft Benson: A Farmer for Freedom →
"Man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around."
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