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."
Read MoreParis in 1871, Seattle in 2020: Leftist Lunacy in Action →
It was pretty much 70 days of chaos, tyranny, and stupidity—draped in red flags and political correctness.
Read MoreToday is the Day! →
Seven reasons to get this book! Strike a blow against socialism.
Read MoreThe Public Doesn't Trust Government But Wants More Of It →
Liberty is rare and precious. When it goes, it may not appear again for generations.
Read MorePhiladelphia's Deadliest Epidemic →
The Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793 was one of the new country’s earliest and best examples of the cascade of private charity that defined the nation for the next two centuries.
Read MoreCivil Disobedience: Is It Ever Justified? →
Henry David Thoreau asked, “Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then?”
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