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Far Smarter Than You Ever Imagined (the phone, not the speaker) →

June 13, 2026

The amazing story of what goes into a smartphone, an adaptation of the principles expressed in the 1958 essay, “I, Pencil” in a November 2025 speech. The essay, “I, Smartphone,” is available on Amazon for about five bucks: https://tinyurl.com/yunb8jyx.

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Recent “Best of Web”

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Berenson Wins Big and the Left-Wing Legacy Media Doesn't Tell You
May 14, 2026
Berenson Wins Big and the Left-Wing Legacy Media Doesn't Tell You
May 14, 2026

The journalist just won a huge victory for free speech. Why hasn’t the mainstream media noticed?

May 14, 2026
The Fading of a Hoax
May 10, 2026
The Fading of a Hoax
May 10, 2026

Now, finally, after 50 years of hysteria, The New York Times, the very Grey Lady with her hair on fire over climate change this whole time, tells us it's not such a big deal after all? — David Marcus.

May 10, 2026
Capitalists Have Already Solved the Grocery Store Problem
April 18, 2026
Capitalists Have Already Solved the Grocery Store Problem
April 18, 2026

Comrade Morondami Wants to Play Grocery Store.

April 18, 2026

Recent Quotes

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Murphy on America
February 11, 2025
Murphy on America
February 11, 2025

“The true meaning of America, you ask? It’s in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman’s badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper. ... In all these things, and many more, you’ll find America. In all these things, you’ll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me” — Actor, poet, and the most decorated American of World War II, Audie Murphy.

February 11, 2025
Mill on Freedom
February 1, 2025
Mill on Freedom
February 1, 2025

“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.”

February 1, 2025
Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
March 20, 2023
Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
March 20, 2023

“There’s nothing more frightening than a half-baked do-gooder who knows nothing of the world but takes it upon himself to tell the world what’s good for it — from his book, Musashi.

March 20, 2023

Recent Blogs

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Far Smarter Than You Ever Imagined (the phone, not the speaker)
June 13, 2026
Far Smarter Than You Ever Imagined (the phone, not the speaker)
June 13, 2026

The amazing story of what goes into a smartphone, an adaptation of the principles expressed in the 1958 essay, “I, Pencil” in a November 2025 speech. The essay, “I, Smartphone,” is available on Amazon for about five bucks: https://tinyurl.com/yunb8jyx.

June 13, 2026
America's Private "Pirates"
June 9, 2026
America's Private "Pirates"
June 9, 2026

When it came to the conduct of America’s war against the world’s pre-eminent military power, Congress got one big thing right. It involved the navy and what today we would call privatization.

June 9, 2026
VOICES OF LIBERTY with SEAN THEMEA
June 9, 2026
VOICES OF LIBERTY with SEAN THEMEA
June 9, 2026

A new discussion with Sean Themea of Young Americans for Liberty's "Voices of Liberty" podcast, posted June 9, 2026. Lots of great subjects from history to economics to philosophy in this one!

June 9, 2026