Why are public K-12 schools reopening more slowly from virus lockdowns than private schools? The New York Times says it’s because public schools have less money.

What was the structure of the government of the ancient Roman Republic? What lessons can we learn from it? Thanks to Steve Dewey and the Bastiat Society of Washington, DC for this opportunity to lecture on the subject—August 27, 2020 via Zoom.

“All who have ever written on government are unanimous,” he wrote, “that among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.” This was a man who appreciated the indissoluble relationship between liberty and character.

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.

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.

Millions of American students today are stewed in Marxist ideas, and we are financing it.

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.

Thanks to this Polish victory, there would be no Bolshevik Western Europe.

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.

She earned more in a minute than Karl Marx did in a lifetime, and her followers killed nobody.

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.

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.

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.”

Did your history teacher tell you any of this?

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.”

Liberty is our most precious possession, because it is the blessing that begets all other blessings: human dignity, decency, prosperity, and more.

The name of Robert Peel deserves the admiration of good people everywhere, not only on this anniversary of his death, but forever.

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.

A new book explores how property rights and free markets are good for the environment.

He preached Marxism in the classroom, now he gets to preach it to himself behind prison bars. The wasted life of a nutty professor.