If self-described progressives decry anything more fiercely than poverty, it is income and wealth inequality. Some have even suggested that they would prefer low-income equality to inequality, regardless of how affluent the lowest level was. What counts is the gap....
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by Patrick Carroll | Aug 29, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
A new executive order from President Donald Trump titled “Prosecuting Burning of the America Flag” is generating considerable stir across the United States. The order, which was signed by Trump on Monday, instructs the Department of Justice to “prioritize the...
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by Tommy Salmons | Aug 28, 2025 | Blog, Year Zero
J. Burden joined me to discuss the major problems conflicting Gen Z.
John Locke and the Libertarian Tradition
by Alan Mosley | Aug 28, 2025 | Featured Articles, History, Libertarianism
The Enlightenment produced many innovators, but few have left a legacy as contentious and influential as John Locke. Born in Wrington, Somerset on August 29, 1632, Locke wrote the political treatises that shaped England’s Glorious Revolution and later guided the...
John Locke and the Two Streams of Liberalism
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 28, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The Late Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Enlightenment bequeathed to the Western world two basic springs of political thought. Both emerged from a common source: the rejection of divine-right monarchy, feudal hierarchy, and the suffocating weight of hereditary...
Christian Priests and Nuns Refuse To Leave Gaza City Despite Israel’s Planned Offensive
by Dave DeCamp | Aug 27, 2025 | News
Hundreds of civilians are sheltering at the two churches in Gaza City Christian priests and nuns based in Gaza City will remain to help displaced people sheltering at two churches despite the Israeli military’s plans to conquer the city, the Latin Patriarchate of...
Trump Administration Considers Taking Stakes in Major US Weapons Firms
by Dave DeCamp | Aug 27, 2025 | News
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US Envoy Barrack Cuts Tour of South Lebanon Short in Face of Protests
by Jason Ditz | Aug 27, 2025 | News
Demonstrations reported in multiple areas of the south US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack continues to make headlines in Lebanon. Yesterday, it was for lambasting Lebanese journalists as “animalistic” at a press conference in Beirut, and today it was during his...
Why Politicians Seek Power
by Jeb Smith | Aug 27, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
In The Dictator's Handbook, Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics, Professors Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith look at historical examples as well as modern ones and conclude successful politicians do not gain power by helping "we the people," but...
The Oklahoma City Bombing: A Lesson in Government Lawlessness
by William Anderson | Aug 27, 2025 | Featured Articles, OKC
On the morning of April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children at a day care center in the building, and injuring hundreds more. As the FBI website tells readers, a...