In 1992, I was just a kid sitting in front of the TV, flipping through channels, looking for something—anything—to watch. No cartoons. No sitcoms. Just golf on one channel and an old businessman sitting at a desk on another. He had that Southern drawl, the kind that...
Politics
No Donald Trump, America Was Not ‘Always Free’
by Jim Bovard | Mar 10, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
In his State of the Union address last week, President Donald Trump promised that Americans “will always be free.” That throwaway line assured another round of applause from his Republican devotees on Capitol Hill. But will other Americans be as gullible or servile as...
Israel’s Lobby Launches Preemptive War on Thomas Massie
by James Rushmore | Mar 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Two weeks ago, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell announced that he would not seek re-election in 2026. McConnell’s announcement prompted Congressman Thomas Massie to share a poll asking his Twitter followers if he should run for McConnell’s open Senate seat, seek the...

TGIF: Free the Housing Market!
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 21, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Economist Bryan Caplan has done it again. His latest graphic nonfiction book is Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation, illustrated by Ady Branzei and published by the Cato Institute. (His first was Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of...

The War on Michael DiMino
by James Rushmore | Feb 13, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Ever since being named deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East, Michael DiMino has found himself in the crosshairs. On January 22, conservative talk radio host Mark Levin, citing a tweet condemning the former CIA analyst’s critique of the “ironclad...

TGIF: Free Speech Restored?
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 7, 2025 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Don't get accustomed to me praising Donald Trump, but exceptions will occur now and then. Trump is no principled friend of liberty, not by a long shot. Judging by most of his actions and words, he recognizes no impenetrable boundary between the government and the...
TGIF: Why McKinley?
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 24, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Now what will hasten the day when our present advantages will wear out and when we shall come down to the conditions of the older and densely populated nations? The answer is: war, debt, taxation, diplomacy, a grand governmental system, pomp, glory, a big army and...
Biden Family Corruption Laid Bare
by Brad Pearce | Jan 23, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
For many years, Joe Biden’s corruption has been as well known as his dementia to anyone remotely out of the Democrat Party and MSNBC messaging zone. Throughout his half-century career as an unimpressive politician, his family has accumulated enormous wealth through...