On Saturday, former president Donald Trump came within less of an inch of being assassinated by a rooftop sniper during an outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. A Secret Service counter sniper “neutralized the shooter,” but not before Trump and at least two rally...
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School Choice: The Death of the Homeschool Revolution
by Elijah Stanfield | Jul 15, 2024 | Featured Articles
The homeschool movement has been growing rapidly over the last few years. But, especially in recent months, I've seen an encouraging new flood of parents making the courageous decision to bring their kids home from public school. A true revolution is upon us, and I...
TGIF: Culture without Romance
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 12, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
"The entire history of the human race, the rise of man from the caves, has been marked by transfers of cultural advances from one group to another and from one civilization to another." So said economist, social philosopher, and historian Thomas Sowell in a 1990...
The Means of Our Future Horror
by John Weeks | Jul 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
Presidential campaign season is in full heat. Given the vast power of the state, the warring identity lines within our society, and the people’s susceptibility to all manner of propagandistic discourse, it’s looking a lot like midnight in America. Americans consume...
If Joe Biden Isn’t Running the Government, Who Is?
by Connor O'Keeffe | Jul 11, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
After a disastrous debate performance two weeks ago and a weak damage-control interview last Friday, it’s finally become clear to almost everyone that President Joe Biden is not running the federal government. Every four years, we’re supposed to pretend that a single...
Washington Takes Another ‘L’ in China Policy
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jul 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In the September 15, 2020 edition of The New York Times, the American Enterprise Institute’s Chris Miller crowed that with its barrage of sanctions Washington would “Decapitate” the Chinese telecom giant Huawei. In this premature pronouncement Miller, whose book Chip...
A Critique of Randy Barnett’s ‘Accommodating’ Libertarianism
by Gary Chartier | Jul 9, 2024 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Randy Barnett is arguably on the short list of the libertarians most influential in American public life. His legal scholarship has informed challenges to state power in the courts; indeed, he himself has argued before the Supreme Court. He has been an active...
Did the Supreme Court Really Rule Against Free Speech?
by Tom Woods | Jul 9, 2024 | Featured Articles
The Supreme Court just ruled in the case of Murthy v. Missouri, in which plaintiffs (including Jay Bhattacharya, who wrote the foreword to my Diary of a Psychosis) argued that the federal government unconstitutionally outsourced restrictions on speech to third...