The Communist Manifesto is gobbledygook writ large as if cooked up by nincompoops. (The article also appears here: https://tinyurl.com/2azyp9t7).

Like almost everybody today, I use a digital camera and haven’t bought a roll of film in decades. But my first camera, back in 1960, was a Kodak Box Brownie.

He thought federal welfare programs would undermine independence and entrepreneurship—and on that, the historical verdict is sad but resoundingly clear: He was right.

Excessive damage claims are not only mostly arbitrary, but they burden everybody with higher insurance premiums and hit small businesses especially hard.

Please don’t blame me for the dollar’s century-long decline in purchasing power. I would have voted Locofoco in 1836 and Gold Democrat in 1896.

On this Inauguration Day, it’s worth noting that the man who delivered the longest inaugural address in American history also presided over the shortest presidency. If there’s any lesson there, it might be this: keep it short and sweet.

If DOGE can accomplish what Dodge accomplished, we too may experience a new American economic miracle. The difference a Detroit banker made in three countries—Germany, Japan and the U.S.

Introducing “The Philadelphia Declaration.”

She was blind but not disabled. Recorded in Memphis, TN, in November 2024.

The Polish experience proves once again that the “tonic” of capitalism is the best antidote to the “poison” of socialism. It was a powerful medicine, but the patient was close to death. After all, you don't prescribe chicken soup for cancer.

When the bad guys hate you, you must be doing something right: The story of Cardinal Mindszenty.

What some U.S. Presidents said on Christmas.

Roy L. Smith cautioned that “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”

From conscription to dependency on government programs to the near-meaningless differences between communism and fascism, Lane’s writing stands out as some of the most clear-eyed stuff libertarians have ever produced.

Raczyński revealed in terrifying detail what the Nazis were doing—the creation of ghettoes, the forced labor, the gas chambers, the starvation, the torture, the mass executions.

Why do socialism/communism produce mayhem on an industrial scale?

Millions of veterans have utilized the G.I. Bill and no one ever told them they couldn’t go to colleges run by Baptists, Presbyterians, Catholics, or whatever. The resulting choice and competition has been good for everybody.

Only a government agency can get away with a half-century of failure. A private operation with a similar record as the DoE would have filed for bankruptcy long ago.

Micro-nations are fascinating, regardless of what other governments may think of them.