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CULTURE
Government vs Private Schools: Better by What Standard?
It is time to enable parents to have the freedom to choose the school for their children through school choice.
The Real Purpose of Drag Queen Story Hour
The purpose is to turn children “queer” through an educational process.
Black Innovators and Entrepreneurs Under Capitalism
That innovative black Americans flourished in late 19th- and early 20th-century America is a little-known part of our Capitalist heritage.
MLK Day: The Wisdom of Thomas Sowell
One of the most distinguished intellectuals of his generation, Thomas Sowell’s classical-liberal worldview continues to challenge, inspire, and empower research across the social sciences.
Virginia Postrel’s “The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress” at 25
Dynamists and stasists have radically different visions of how the world works, or should work.
A Key Lesson in Education Policy: You Don’t Make Peace with Termites
Two neighboring states, Florida and Georgia, show how and how not to deal with the “termite” problem of Leftist education control.
Politics
Keep Governments Out of Data Debates
There is a role for the law in consumer data privacy, but for the most part, rather than looking for ways to regulate and punish, states should stay focused on actual violations of individual rights, such as when personally identifiable data is used to commit identity and financial theft.
The Meaning Behind Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
On Martin Luther King Day–and every day–we should focus on the antidote to racism and alternative to racial thinking: individualism.
Mr President, End These Covid-19 Travel Restrictions Now!
For almost three years now, many wonderful artists, intellectuals, students, business professionals, and musicians have been locked out of US borders, even just to tour around and see this great land and meet up with friends. It’s simply barbaric and yet there it is.
When Federal Interest Payments Come to Exceed the Military Budget: Time to Stop Defending the Rest of the World
American taxpayers remain stuck subsidizing prosperous, populous Europeans, superfluous Middle Eastern monarchs, and cheap-riding Asian defense dependents.
Fauci Fibbed on the Day Everything Changed
Fauci could have used his time in Congress to give a basic explanation. He did not. He chose to spread irrational fear instead.
A Sad Story Isn’t an Argument for the Welfare State
Motivating us to feel sorry for the poor and down trodden allows the Leftists to cash in their trump card—the widespread belief that we have a moral obligation to serve those in need.
WORLD
Brazil Is Proving That There’s No Such Thing as Unbiased Censorship
As Americans sift through the Twitter Files and learn the shocking truth about U.S. government involvement in social media moderation, they can take important lessons from Brazil’s recent foray into censorship.
Bad Energy Decisions Contributed to Europe’s Energy Crisis
Abruptly decreasing domestic production of fossil fuels and shuttering of coal and nuclear plants have put Europe is an energy crisis exasperated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its reduction of energy exports to Europe.
Nuclear Power, Not Wind & Solar, Keeps The Lights and Heat On In France
France’s aging nuclear power plants that are keeping the lights and heat on—not wind and solar power that are at the mercy of the weather.
What Iranian Protesters Deserve from Us
We vastly underappreciate the power of America’s moral sanction.
EU “Digital Market Act” is Another Self-Inflicted Regulatory Wound
Europe’s Digital Market Act to regulate “American Big-Tech” ignores that without the efforts and ingenuity of Big Tech, there were no “gates” to keep.
Hypocrisy Abounds at COP27 Climate Summit
Every year, global climate summits feature a parade of hypocrisy as the world’s elite arrive on private jets to lecture humanity on cutting carbon emissions.
MARKETS
Microsoft-Activision Meger: Will Antitrust Undermine the Future of Online Gaming?
The future of gaming won’t be determined by the Microsoft-Activision merger. But it could very well be undermined if the FTC succeeds in blocking the merger.
Individuals, Not Government Subsidies & Tariffs, Have a Comparative Advantage at Improving Comparative Advantages
There is no plausible case to be made that for us Americans to improve our comparative advantages, we need the government to protect any of us from foreign competition, other than the protection of individual rights.
Wage and Price Controls Are Not the Answer to Inflation
Reinforcing what economic theory tells us, evidence of the harm of price controls abounds in history, from the infamous 303 A.D. Edict of Emperor Diocletian in Ancient Rome to America’s 1970s gasoline price controls and, perhaps most infamously, New York City’s disastrous eight-decade-long experiment with rent control.
Unfair Labor Practices? Why Don’t You Go Somewhere Else?
Unionized workers effectively form a cartel that would be illegal under antitrust laws as an obvious “restraint of trade” if unions had not been specifically exempted from the rules.
State Investing, Not ESG, Is the Political Problem
The problem isn’t so much that a company takes ideological considerations into account in its business practices so much as that governments — such as state-run pension funds — are imposing ideological agendas on businesses via this financial control.
Prices and Costs of Production in a Free-Market
In a free market, the prices of products tend to be governed by their costs of production.
LAW
Wyoming GOP State Lawmakers Propose to Ban Electric Cars
Wyoming: Blue California’s Red Mini-Me?
Judicial Review: The Supreme Court’s Complicity in Our Loss of Freedom
So how has judicial review worked out?
Jordan Peterson’s License Fiasco Highlights Why Government Licensing Should Be Abolished
The alternative to state licensing is free-market certification.
How an Occupied Twitter Ruined Countless Lives
What people used to say about the CCP role in the management of TikTok applies fully in the US today with all the main tech companies.
The Biden Administration Is Banning Low-Cost Appliances—and Bragging about It
New Biden administration regulations will lower the standard of living of Americans.
Patent Rights: Life, Liberty and Intellectual Property
The Founding Fathers’ moral achievement in securing patents and other intellectual property rights in U.S. law.
SCI-TECH
Capitalists on the Moon
The essence of Jacobin Magazine’s argument is that it isn’t fair that some get to enjoy things most of us can’t afford. If everyone can’t enjoy luxuries, then nobody should be allowed to. This is an example of what Ayn Rand called “hatred of the good for being the good.”
Doom is Still Coming: Three Errors Paul Ehrlich Keeps Making
In Ehrlich’s worldview, humanity only transgresses and can only cause harm. In Simon’s view, humanity takes primacy and the sources of its enrichment also repair many harms done to the environment, and eventually allows improvements.
Will California’s Green Energy Policies “Save Planet Earth”?
California officials are needlessly inflicting huge risks, costs, and intrusions on Californians, rather than relying on proven adaptation at a much lower cost and disruption.
Thankyou Elon Musk!
Elon Musk’s mistakes should be viewed in the context of his achievements. Musk has contributed to human flourishing not only by developing Tesla and SpaceX and co-founding Open AI. By taking over Twitter and shaking it up, he has exposed the government’s violations of free speech.
The Malthusian Contradiction
Specific resources are limited. There’s only so much oil, land and water. But resources, in general, are unlimited — or rather, limited only by human ingenuity.
Climate Change Activism as a Pretext to Abolishing Capitalism
To Anti-Capitalists, Climate Change Activism is Just a Pretext for an Authoritarian “Planned” Economy