Flourishing human life requires heroes.
CULTURE
The Legacy of Alexander Hamilton
Hamilton did not as treasury secretary implement, or espouse, any system of protective tariffs or bounties.
The Strange World of Ivan Ivanov
A short yet hard-hitting indictment of the economic and political repression that so often follows from attempts to structure a society around Marxist ideology and centralized economic planning.
Modern School Textbooks Are Hazardous to Your Child’s Mind
Society’s greatest concern, claim the so-called humanitarians, is our children–who are suffering from inadequate nutrition, shelter and health care. Yet these same “humanitarians” are silent about the scourge destroying a child’s mind–his textbooks.
Making Resolutions Outlast January
Why do people make promises to themselves they don’t keep?
How To Be Profitable and Moral In 2020
Self-interest rests on what human flourishing requires: adhering to reality in one’s thinking and action by the means of observation and logic
What is the Meaning of New Year’s?
Your life is in your own hands.
Against Higher Education: Is College a Government-Subsidized Rip-Off?
Although Caplan thinks college is mostly a scam, he says there’s one type of person who definitely benefits — professors like him.
College Diversity Bureaucracies Undermine Education
Unless the cycle of promoting and nursing imaginary grievances is ended, diversity bureaucracies will take over our colleges and universities, supplanting altogether the goal of higher education.
Fact Checking the New York Times’ 1619 Project and Its Critics
Was the American Revolution fought in defense of slavery? Was Abraham Lincoln a racial colonizationist or exaggerated egalitarian? Did slavery drive America’s economic growth and the emergence of American Capitalism? Did the 1619 Project seek adequate scholarly guidance in preparing its work?
Corrupting Our Social Norms
It’s not just academics and judges who now see sex as optional.
Christmas is About Enjoying Values Not Sacrificing Them
Those who feel guilt over material wealth and blame business for commercializing Christmas through ‘greedy’ profit seeking should pause and ask: “What is the standard of value by which we condemn material wealth and business?”
Christmas Should be More Commercial
It is time to take the Christ out of Christmas, and turn the holiday into a guiltlessly egoistic, pro-reason, this-worldly, commercial celebration.
In Defense of The Austrian School of Economics
If you approach Austrians economics from a Marxian-style dialectic, as Janek Wasserman does, then you will miss the entire point of the school of thought and its contribution to the science of economics.
1619 Project “New History” of Capitalism Collapses Under Scrutiny
Far from representing non-white scholarly voices and introducing challenges to a previously stagnant historiography of slavery, the NHC school is actually a stunning embodiment of everything it charges against its critics.
Introduction to How to Be Profitable and Moral By Jaana Woiceshyn
An excerpt from the Introduction to How to Be Profitable and Moral By Jaana Woiceshyn.
Rich Hollywood “Socialists” Against Capitalism
In most every Hollywood movie, capitalism is evil.
Fraud in Higher Education
The fact that unscrupulous parents paid millions for special favors from college administrators to enroll their children pales in comparison to the poor educational outcomes, not to mention the gross indoctrination of young people by leftist professors.
