History

  • The Democracy Illusion

    “America is already far beyond what can be justified as advancing our mutual well-being. And our government seems determined to double down on how far it oversteps, a strategy which necessarily shrinks liberty, and the benefits only liberty can provide.” ~ Gary M. Galles

    The Democracy Illusion
  • D.C.’s “Best Information Available” Charade

    “Americans need their own ‘best information available’ axiom to automatically reject assertions from media outlets that shamelessly kowtow to politicians and government agencies.” ~ James Bovard

    D.C.’s “Best Information Available” Charade
  • Government’s Deficiencies Reveal What No Government Should Do

    “Herbert Spencer saw representative government’s infirmities as limitations on government’s ability to do what it had no business doing, but not for its one essential role of defending rights from trespass.” ~ Gary M. Galles

    Government’s Deficiencies Reveal What No Government Should Do
  • How Government Meddling Ruined Higher Education, Part 1

    “There is no need whatsoever for government to provide, subsidize, or control education. The United States would be a far better educated country if government had kept entirely out of education. Unfortunately, it did not.” ~ George Leef

    How Government Meddling Ruined Higher Education, Part 1
  • Convoy!

    “The convoy protestors want freedom from senseless, unscientific Covid restrictions and mandates and freedom from a ruling class that ignores their own rules and treats everyday Canadians with derision and disrespect.” ~ Robert E. Wright

    Convoy!
  • The Other Side

    “The fine arts improve our lives. They uplift the spirit, and can help alleviate the problems intrinsic to material and monetary life. But a desire for beauty and elevation should not be conflated with the desire for money.” ~ Robert Edward Gordon

    The Other Side
  • FSLICing America’s Public Health Bureaucracies

    “When Americans have to trust agency X, be it a deposit insurer or a public health authority, and X screws up so badly that it can no longer be trusted, X may, and should, be eliminated.” ~ Robert E. Wright

    FSLICing America’s Public Health Bureaucracies
  • Bad History Leads to Bad Politics

    “Any progress will be slow, but our politics arguably depend on it. The American experiment will not survive if Americans don’t understand why it happened and what makes it so unique.” ~ Garion Frankel

    Bad History Leads to Bad Politics
  • Russia Closes Gulag Memorial, but Communist Oppression Must Not Be Forgotten

    “Let us honor the Memorial International and its brave supporters. They helped force the rest of us to remember the evil that never seems to lurk far from men’s and women’s hearts.” ~ Doug Bandow

    Russia Closes Gulag Memorial, but Communist Oppression Must Not Be Forgotten
  • How The World Really Works

    “Smil’s is much more concerned with what is and what is not physically possible. Thus, his meticulously researched words are for anyone who wants his priors reexamined and feathers ruffled. It’s what the 2020s desperately need.” ~ Joakim Book

    How The World Really Works
  • Jabbing the Administrative State

    “Congress will need to be pellucid about what major powers it chooses to delegate. And the administration will have to offer up the real reasons for administrative actions or risk being second-guessed by the judiciary.” ~ John O. McGinnis

    Jabbing the Administrative State
  • Freedom and Whisky Go Together Like Tyranny and Oppression

    “Burns hails whisky as the drink of the ‘freeborn, martial boys’ of Scotland, and he readily sees the ‘foe’ as government: ‘royal George’s will.’ His final lines are well founded. If tyranny is linked to the oppression of distilling, then it follows that ‘Freedom and whisky go together'” ~ Jon Sanders

    Freedom and Whisky Go Together Like Tyranny and Oppression