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CULTURE
For the New Individualist: A Message of Hope, Love and Selfishness
In her pamphlet, Textbook of Americanism, Ayn Rand wrote that “[a]n individualist is a man who says: “I will not run anyone’s life—nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone—…
The Most Important Thing the Founders Built Wasn’t the Constitution
Their deepest fear was an ignorant citizenry—a public that could be handed liberty and squander it because they lacked the mental tools to defend it. The Founders understood something that gets lost in the monument-and-marble version of history: a republic is not a st…
The Self Under Siege: What Ayn Rand’s Epic Novel “The Fountainhead” Shows Us About the Societies We Build
Ayn Rand built five main characters in The Fountainhead who function as psychological archetypes, but her real achievement was more precise than that. She mapped five distinct textures of subjective experience that emerge from a single upstream choice: where does the se…
Thinkers vs. Ragers: Epstein, Kirk, Iran—Same Grift, Different Day
Rachel Maddow monetizes liberal dread. Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens monetize your dread.
Why The Left Does Not Celebrate Iranian Freedom Protestors
The Iranian people celebrating Israel and America weren’t just rejecting the Ayatollah. They were rejecting the entire architecture of ideological capture—the architecture the Western Left has been building at home.
Why Most Civilizations Fail, Part 3: The Choice Between Stasis and Infinity
What separates societies that generate knowledge from those that suppress it, and what does this mean for our future?
POLITICS
A Transformative President: The Meaning of The Presidency of Donald J. Trump
Greatness, in the presidential sense, means transformation—not moral perfection.
What a Rational Immigration System Actually Looks Like
Americans have a rational self-interest in admitting people who will strengthen that protection and excluding people who will undermine it.
President Donald Trump on War on Iran
Iran can never have a nuclear program. We will annihilate their every army and missile industry.
How Congress Can Fix the Debt Crisis (Before It’s Too Late)
By 2036, interest costs, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are projected to consume 100 percent of federal revenues.
DHS Administrative Warrants, ICE Immigration Arrests, and the Fourth Amendment
Can executive officials authorize themselves to enter a home? Or must they obtain a warrant from a judicial officer?
Decentralizing Public Health: Institutional Monopolies Are Fraying
It is ironic that the Trump administration, rightly, objects to the WHO’s mission creep and politicization but fails to see the same problem with the CDC in its own backyard.
MARKETS
End of DEI?
The DEI terminology may not have disappeared entirely from business but the ideology (if it ever amounted to more than virtue signaling in corporate communications) has been extinguished.
Gold and The Quiet Birth of a New Monetary Order
A new reserve asset is rising. It is not a cryptocurrency. It is not a new fiat experiment. It is something far older, heavier, and far harder to control.
America’s Triage: On Trump’s Economic Nationalism
“You should not be dependent for that which is fundamental to your sovereignty on any other nation.”
The Delusions and Dangers of the New Mercantilism
Trump has assumed the powers of a near absolute monarch to decide when, why, and against whom he will arbitrarily raise and lower and raise again tariffs on the importation of goods into the United States.
The Politics and Economics of Plato, Aristotle, and the Ancient Greeks
In Aristotle, we find a more subtle and sophisticated understanding of some economic themes than in Plato. While Aristotle’s answers were incomplete and often misdirected, as well as incorrect, he at least was among the first to ask the types of questions that centuri…
In Defense of “Evil Billionaire” Jim Pattison
We should thank billionaire entrepreneurs like Jim Pattison and patronize their businesses – not attack them.
WORLD
Endgame in Ukraine
Ukrainians Survived Stalin. They Fought Putin Bravely. They Deserve Our Honesty.
Iran Gets Just Deserts
America’s first major defense against Iran is an absolutely rational act and a historic exemplar of the virtue of selfishness.
Khamenei Is Dead — A Historic Turning Point
Khamenei’s death is a tremendous act of justice to the countless people his regime tortured, kidnapped, raped, and murdered.
The U.S. and Israel Attack Iran
There has never been a better chance for a free Iran than now. Much of the job will be done by the US and Israel, but it can only be finalised by the Iranian people. There will never be a better chance.
President Donald Trump on War on Iran
Iran can never have a nuclear program. We will annihilate their every army and missile industry.
The Left’s War Against America and Western Civilization
The Left is at war with America. The Left is at war with the West. The Left is at war with the essential principles of Western Civilization.
LAW
Trump’s Operation Epic Fury Iran Strikes Are Constitutional
The Iran Strikes Are Constitutional. That’s Not The Interesting Question.
DHS Administrative Warrants, ICE Immigration Arrests, and the Fourth Amendment
Can executive officials authorize themselves to enter a home? Or must they obtain a warrant from a judicial officer?
The United States of America is Not a Democracy
If we’ve become a democracy, it would represent a deep betrayal of our founders, who saw democracy as another form of tyranny.
Fairness Doctrine 2.0
Dictating content under the threat of government reprisal is censorship, and censorship always involves a violation of property rights.
More Guns, Less Murder?
The year 2025 is shaping up to have the lowest homicide rate since 1900. Let that sink in. The lowest in 125 years. Law-abiding citizens carrying firearms aren’t the problem. They never were.
A Prosecutor Breaks Down the ICE Officer Shooting of Renee Good in Minnesota
Objectivist former prosecutor James Valliant assesses the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minnesota.
SCI-TECH
The Rise and Fall of Wikipedia
The rise of Wikipedia was spectacular, implausible, and glorious. Its fall is equally disappointing, predictable, and inglorious.
Books: A Rebel in Eden: The War Between Individualism and Environmentalism
A Rebel in Eden: The War Between Individualism and Environmentalism, by Robert Bidinotto, explains the philosophic foundations of the modern political movement, theories that, in some cases, go back centuries.
The National Academies’ Perversion of Science
A new “report” by the prestigious National Academies engages in heavy fossil fuel benefit denial in order to claim that climate danger is worse than ever.
The Separation of State from Religion, Science, and Education (Part 8 of 10)
The system of public education could be abolished over the course of a generation, in a way that need not impose financial hardship on the parents of any child alive at the time of the abolition’s commencement.
“Greenwashing” and the Anatomy of Compromise
As Ayn Rand explains in her short essay The Anatomy of Compromise, compromising rational principles never works.
Science As an Excuse
How we find ourselves again in the awkward position of having trusted the experts and discovering that this was not a good idea.