A new 90-minute documentary showcases the greatness of the economist Ludwig von Mises to the world.

Hellfire and brimstone fell upon anyone who suggested, “Hey, let’s just give people their money back and let them choose where they want to go to church.”

People do not like to be plucked too much. And why should they think otherwise? It’s their money!

It sounds strange to hear the word “election” in the same breath as “king.” That’s not usually the way a king gets a throne.

Why are so many millennials attracted to socialism?

Power rots the soul. Rare is the individual who becomes a better person for having possessed it. (Another link to this article is https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/-the-iron-fist-in-the-velvet-glove/).

He didn’t steal, mooch or demand anything from others that wasn’t owed him. Like privileged kings, he enjoyed the fine things with one big difference: He earned it.

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.”