The legendary actor Marlon Brando once said, “Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.” I don’t know if that’s fair or not, but I do know that occasionally, whether on purpose or by accident, even Hollywood gets something right.

With the recent resurgence of socialist ideology around the world, it’s more important than ever that people understand what it’s all about. It is an insidious poison that has killed tens of millions over the decades.

It’s a fact of life that as human beings, we take a greater interest in those things over which we have some power of discretion than in those things we feel relatively helpless to affect. That’s why many people spend more time shopping for the car they want—visiting dealership showrooms and comparing prices and features—than they spend in picking the right schools for their children.

Perhaps some economics texts should come with a warning label.

When it came to race and the law, Warren Harding was well ahead of his time.

The story of the largest private fundraising campaign of America’s Revolutionary War.

We would do well to remember, as economist Milton Friedman instructed, that “The power to do good is also the power to do harm. Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.”

If your aim is to delegitimize American liberty or even Western Civilization in general, then Columbus must go even if it requires lies to get the job done.

The next time you eat something with the name “Kellogg” on the box, think of what a great country it must be if a man can mix an idea with a few bucks and turn it into a great enterprise. If the class warriors and their political friends have their way, we’ll someday have to go to museums to learn about such things.

We need to be inspired by the words and deeds of real people whose lives are worth celebrating, whose examples are inherently inspirational.

Big spenders in Washington exhibit the same pomposity with which the arrogant, swaggering demagogues of ancient Rome demolished first the Roman Republic and then later, the Roman Empire too.

Was George Orwell a Budding Libertarian? Recorded September 15, 2021. Based on this article: https://fee.org/articles/was-george-orwell-a-socialist-or-a-libertarian-its-complicated/.

Important. Precious. Indispensable. Priceless. Liberty is all these and more. And yet, people frequently vote it away in exchange for a short-term advantage or benefit.

Bluegrass is quintessential, all-American, Appalachian, hillbilly music. I’ve never seen a bluegrass musician who didn’t seem as happy as a rooster on a June bug.

Stereotyping people according to income grouping is superficial bigotry.

“They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?” asked the late, great Paul Harvey.

Any good economist will tell you that as factors of production, labor and capital are not only indispensable but hugely dependent upon each other as well — from this significant 2021 revision and expansion of an old essay.

As most of the country reveled in newly won freedoms and a market economy that allowed the enterprising to create wealth, a few malcontents sought a different life.

A century from now, people will look back on this turbulent but pivotal moment in history and ask, “What did our American ancestors in the early 21st Century do when faced with dire threats to their Constitution and their liberties?”

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history -- George Orwell. To watch a video interview I did on this subject (on 9/15/21), follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAMPl7lYfmc.