One can be overjoyed by the repudiation of a candidate without being pleased with the opposing candidate's victory. This election is an occasion for that reaction. An American (or anyone actually) is perfectly justified in taking pleasure in Kamala Harris's...
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Trump’s Election Could Be the Best Result for Zelensky
by Ted Snider | Nov 8, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, needs a way to lose the war with Russia. American voters may have just given it to him. In his victory speech early in the morning of November 6, President-elect Donald Trump said, “I will govern by a simple motto: Promises...
Why Trump’s Victory Matters…And Why It Doesn’t
by Connor O'Keeffe | Nov 7, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
Donald Trump is the projected winner of the 2024 presidential election. After winning back states he had lost in 2020, Trump performed well in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania—states Kamala Harris needed to win. Trump has won more than enough electoral votes to...
Mandating the Bible? A Libertarian Appraisal
by Benjamin Seevers | Nov 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
The Oklahoma State Superintendent—the highest education authority in the state—mandated that public schools incorporate the Bible into lesson plans. While there are good reasons to oppose it, the edict challenges a Supreme Court decision that should be overturned:...
The Destruction and Cronyism of the Green Agenda
by Owen Ashworth | Nov 6, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
At the behest of the green lobby, western governments are driving full throttle down to arrive at a utopia where state intervention has stopped the permanency of climate change. Net zero refers to reaching a point where all the emissions produced by a nation are...
Will We Witness a Fed Chair Who Believes in Gold?
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Nov 6, 2024 | Book Reviews, Economics, Featured Articles
Having reviewed multiple books on monetary reform over the past few years, such as Lev Menand’s The Fed Unbound: Central Banking in a Time of Crisis and Brown and Pringle’s A Guide to Good Money: Beyond the Illusions of Asset Price Inflation, I was predictably eager...
Activist-cide
by Kym Robinson | Nov 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
I recently attended an Australian Friends of Palestine charity fundraiser. It was a run-walk on a warm Sunday afternoon at Glenelg. Merchandise was sold, donations taken, and those entering paid to help raise money and awareness about the genocide in Palestine. In the...
The Myth of an American Housing Shortage
by Thomas Eddlem | Nov 5, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
Everybody knows housing unaffordability and home sticker prices peaked at all-time highs in 2023, even higher than the peak of the 2007 real estate bubble in real terms. Both sticker prices and median mortgage payments for homes remain today at among the most...