The right is calling for revenge in the form of firing every leftist who talked out of turn over Charlie Kirk’s assassination last week. This mentality does threaten to tear the country apart. Already, there are firefighters, publicists, teachers, and a whole host of...
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‘We Are All Charlie Kirk’
by Kym Robinson | Sep 15, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
In 2015, the French comedy magazine Charlie Hebdo was attacked by terrorists and twelve people were murdered. It was the second of three violent attacks on the magazine because they had dared to published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, an insult to followers of...
‘The Ethics of Dynamite,’ Again
by Scott Boykin | Sep 15, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
In his 1894 essay “The Ethics of Dynamite,” English individualist Auberon Herbert likened the use of violence by revolutionary anarchists to the violence the state itself represents, and he drew out in his characteristically beautiful prose the nature of the state as...

TGIF: Trump and the Separation of Powers
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 5, 2025 | Economics, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The U.S. Court of Appeals' rejection last week of the Trump administration's global "emergency" tariff program was a welcome affirmation of the separation-of-powers doctrine. Next stop: the U.S. Supreme Court. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a 9-0 ruling that Trump...

Britain’s Example Vindicates Rand Paul’s Opposition to ‘Kids Online Safety Act’
by Jack Hunter | Sep 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
In July 2024, Rand Paul (R-KY) was one of only three senators who voted against the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), legislation that sought to protect children from harmful material online. The other two were Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR)....

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...
Are Democrats More Neocon Than Republicans Now?
by Jack Hunter | Aug 25, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Last week as Donald Trump met separately with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine head Volodymyr Zelensky to potentially seek an end to the years long war between their countries, Democrats have been very upset. That peace might happen. They are worried...
Ron Paul: Defender of the Powerless, Critic of the Powerful
by Alan Mosley | Aug 20, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
In a political age that prizes charisma over conviction, Ron Paul's career stands out as a long series of principled noes. The Texas physician–turned–congressman won his first seat in 1976, lost it a few months later, then returned repeatedly to the House, always as...