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Let’s Develop Alternatives To Today’s Methods Of Government, So The Politically Impossible Becomes The Politically Inevitable.

June 29, 2020

We must make the building of a free society once more an adventure, a deed of courage, a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds and best entrepreneurs. If we can regain our belief in the power of ideas, the battle is not lost.

Unhappy With The State Of Your Nation? Restart From Scratch With An International Charter City.

June 28, 2020

Building an international charter city designed for mass migration from one country to another would turn private enterprise to a business of nation-making.The idea for international charter cities began more than a decade ago. Now, it is a concept that is gaining new momentum.

We’ve Lost Hollywood, The Media And The Universities To The Hard Left. Can We Win Them Back?

June 27, 2020

Politics turns out to be far downstream of culture. Doctrinal conservatives stormed the three branches of government handily enough, but not Hollywood, the publishing industry, academia and other trades that form our habits of mind without our knowing it.

Entrepreneurship Is The One Institution We Can Rely Upon To Maintain A Prosperous And Civil Society.

June 26, 2020

If those who protest and complain today were themselves to adopt the entrepreneurial spirit in their own lives, they would find that they could not only build better platforms for progress, but also introduce more purpose, meaning and autonomy into their own lives.

Atlas Shrugged’s Strike by Active Minds Composes The Requiem for Seattle’s Mindless Grungelords

June 25, 2020

The images of woke white protesters brought to their knees across the country, apologizing to the mob for sins they did not commit, is jarring and disturbing. At the heights of elite power – in the corporate board rooms that have decided to blast us with emails touting their payment of indulgences to cement their status as allies.

The Bourgeois Virtues of Poetic Justice Warrior Deirdre McCloskey

June 24, 2020

Justice insists on private property honestly acquired. The justice to pay willingly for good work, to honor labor, to break down privilege, to value people for what they can do rather than who they are. To view success without envy, making capitalism work since 1776.

We’d Have Been Better Off Reading A “For Dummies” Book Than Listening To Our Stupid Politicians.

June 23, 2020

Albert Camus said: "When a war breaks out, people say "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be 'too stupid', that doesn't prevent it lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way." Indeed it is true.

Woke Society In America Will Not Allow You To Be Conservative Any More.

June 22, 2020

Those who hold different views are “deranged.” They’re criminals. Dangerous. They shouldn’t be allowed to hold jobs where they might have some influence over others. They need to be forced into hard labor and sent to re-education camps.

The Chinese Communist Party Is Hard At Work Buying Influence In The Capitalist West And With Global Corporations.

June 21, 2020

You don't hear these influencers say, “That Communist Party of China is great—we ought to let it run the show!” Instead, they’ll say “doing business with the CCP is good ol’ free market capitalism.” But everything they say and do advances the aims of the CCP

Minority-Owned Businesses Were Hit Hardest By Government Lockdowns, While Corporate America Raked In Windfall Cash.

June 20, 2020

The lesson here is quite clear. When the government launches massive interventions into the economy, political distortions will result in costs disproportionately borne by disadvantaged groups in society and benefits that skew toward the well-connected.

It Is Class, Not Race, That Divides America.

June 19, 2020

The next time we hear a lecture about caring from a woke Yale professor, or a sermon on systematic racism from a CEO, or more Hollywood confessional video drivel, we should pause and politely ask, “But where do your children go to school? And why do you live where you live? And dine with whom you dine?”

The State Isn’t Going Crazy; It’s Going State.

June 18, 2020

The state, in the form of police violence, is asserting its power to control the population. Once you begin to see like a state, you recognize that failing to use violence to exert control would deny the nature, and in fact the very self-justification, of the enforcement power.

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