When Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in 2025, its supporters promised something approaching accountability. The bill, championed by Representatives Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA), ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release all...
Public discussion of the Epstein files has largely centered on individual misconduct and reputational fallout. That emphasis risks overlooking the more consequential question raised by the Justice Department’s response to the disclosure mandate. The episode is less...
The camera crews assembled at the Justice Department in March 2024 to capture what prosecutors described as a landmark conviction. Juan Orlando Hernández, who had served as Honduras's president from 2014 to 2022, stood convicted of conspiring to import over four...
The Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada is in many respects a fairly typical business school. It offers degrees in management, leadership, economics, and so on, and its faculty members are regularly published...
The problem of survival is never "solved," once and for all, with no further thought or motion required. More precisely, the problem of survival is solved, by recognizing that survival demands constant growth and creativeness.... Capitalism, by its nature, entails a...
In the halls of the U.S. Capitol, where lawmakers craft policies that shape the nation's economy, a persistent ethical dilemma looms: the ability of members of Congress to trade stocks while possessing privileged, non-public information. This practice raises serious...
Between January 27 and January 29, 2026, something carefully orchestrated unfolded across Western capitals. Within this forty-eight hour window, the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier group arrived in the Persian Gulf, President Donald Trump declared "time is running out,"...
On September 11, 2001, a horrified Sam Harris watches the towers collapse into a smoldering pile of rubble. The deadly jihadist attacks of that fateful day inspired him to immediately begin writing The End of Faith, a book that would launch the "New Atheist"...
Leaving aside the events that made the current monetary system possible, banknotes that are printed monopolistically (currency) by central banks have purchasing power and serve as a general medium of exchange (money) for billions of people around the world. Such...
President Donald Trump constantly blusters as if he deserves the 'Nobel Prize for Economic Triumphs,' just like he supposedly deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. Last week in a speech in Iowa, he doubled down on his triumphs by referring to himself in the third person:...
Throughout the Israel Defense Forces rampage across Gaza, the State of Israel and its collaborators and sympathizers around the world have ridiculed the alarming death toll maintained by Palestinian health authorities, dismissing the count as a gross exaggeration...
On January 24, protester and legal gun owner Alex Pretti was shot and killed by United States Customs and Border Protection agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, making national news. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem almost immediately said that Pretti brandished a...
A troubling convergence has emerged among Western think tanks, Israeli politicians, and exiled opposition figures advocating for the partition of Iran along ethnic and sectarian lines. This strategy represents a dangerous escalation from traditional regime change...
If people individually own themselves and have a right to be free of aggressive force, then they have a right to change their location in ways consistent with other people's rights. Whether you call this moving around relocating, emigrating, or immigrating, doesn't...
President Donald Trump’s call to reindustrialize the United States taps into a widely shared sense that something fundamental has gone wrong in the American economy. Manufacturing employment has collapsed, entire regions have been hollowed out, and supply-chain...
On May 28, 2016, a debate took place between presidential candidates at the Libertarian National Convention. A question in that debate about driver’s licenses prompted a notable slate of responses that quickly went viral. When former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson,...
“Tariffs,” President Donald Trump is fond of reminding us, “is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary.” It’s the most beautiful word “because tariffs are going to make us rich as hell. It's going to bring our countries businesses back that left us.” And...
January 22 is a convenient reminder that modern American libertarianism did not begin only in seminar rooms, courtrooms, or party platforms. It also began on the book page, where a few writers treated state worship as an intellectual mistake rather than a civic duty....
