That innovative black Americans flourished in late 19th- and early 20th-century America is a little-known part of our Capitalist heritage.
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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.
Why Do New Year’s Resolutions Typically Fail?
If you want your New Year’s resolutions to be completed, take the steps needed to really commit to it.
Making Resolutions Outlast January
As Ayn Rand put it, a value is something you act to gain or keep. A desire without action then is just a wish.
What is the Meaning of New Year’s?
Your life is in your own hands.
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
It is rare that a book can objectively present the facts and then draw all of the wrong conclusions. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017, is one such book.
Highway Heist: Do Our Roads Have to be Built by Government?
Roads don’t have to be built by government, and we would be better off if we had left it to private enterprise and voluntary cooperation.
Don’t Confuse School Choice with Educational Freedom
While school choice isn’t the ideal, it isn’t a compromise to supports such policies.
Montessori Organization Debunks Thanksgiving Story
Why is there this constant attempt to deny the past?
Joseph Ladapo: Hero of the Pandemic
What we learn from Joseph Ladapo’s book “Transcend Fear” is that he has been a warrior against pseudoscience from the very beginning of this pandemic.
Gone Viral: How Covid Drove the World Insane
I would rank Justin Hart’s book among those that should be considered a staple reading on the covid epoch. It’s as much a medical and political history as it is a psychological study in mass hysteria.
Is the Wealth of American Capitalism the Result of Slavery?
“No, Sarah, Our Prosperity Wasn’t Extracted from Slaves”
Superabundance: One of the Greatest Books on Economic Development and Growth of the Past Decade
Gale Pooley and Marian Tupy’s book, “Superabundance,” use “time prices” – the length of time that people must work to purchase something – to measure how the state of the world is improving as we live longer, healthier, and more comfortable lives.
Six Myths About Student Loan “Forgiveness”
The reality is that a college degree is either valuable or it isn’t. If it’s valuable, it will pay for itself. If it’s not valuable, no one should pay for it. Either way, there’s no reason for the government to be involved.
We Need a New Philosophy of Progress
We need a new philosophy of progress for the 21st century.
The Beautiful Tree by James Tooley
Parents want the best for their children. They realize that one of the keys to escaping poverty is a good education. The best education, they understand, comes from entrepreneurs who offer higher quality to stay in business and prosper. – Max Borders
Parent Power Can Improve US Education
Parents must seize control of their children’s education from the “interlocking directorate” that is waging a war against children’s minds.
Saving Capitalism From Its Defenders
Capitalism is not only practical, but also the only moral social system—and the only one fit for morally good people.
Alternatives to Public Libraries
America’s past, is replete with examples of voluntary, cooperative associations which provided for the many needs of the citizenry. One of the most striking examples is the evolution of libraries in pre-Civil War America. Even today, alternatives to tax-sup-ported libraries exist.
Preferential Policies: An International Perspective by Thomas Sowell
Regardless of the reason or rationale, the social effect of affirmative-action policies is to politicize social relationships. And the consequences of this have been everything from systems of privilege and corruption to mob violence and civil war.
Tribalism’s Big Lie
Embrace the reality of a common humanity shared with all. We descend into primitive tribal thinking at our peril.
“Gender-Affirming Care”: On The Transgender Transformation of Children
The role of a parent is to protect his child from harm, teach him how to think and make good choices, identify reality, help him understand long-range consequences, and help him to understand that his feelings are not superior to reason.
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