Politics

Is “extractive” always a dirty word? While mining and energy fuel civilization, modern environmentalism has reshaped public perception—and the economy. What happens when ideology clashes with reality?

The intelligentsia really feels like they’re in mortal danger. It’s lovely to see.

While discussing Vice President Vance’s recent speech in Munich, Margaret Brennan made the bold claim that free speech is what “empowered” the Nazi Party, allowed them to take over the country, and then commit genocide.

Most modern Americans cannot conceive of states seceding from the US, but in 1860, the majority of the people believed secession was both legal and moral and saw the Constitution as permitting it.

Great Britain‘s Labour government, since coming into power last year, has taken a number of measures that already are resulting in lowering the nation’s standard of living.

The great French economist Frederic Bastiat wrote that we should not look just at the visible results of government economic intervention, but also the good things that the intervention keeps from happening. Trump‘s tariffs are a good example.

In this week‘s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Jim Downs, who exposes the high death rates from disease suffered by newly-freed slaves because of neglect by Union armies.

Should we audit the US gold hoard? First, let’s take a look at what the official numbers say about how big the US gold reserve is, where it is located, and how much it is worth in US dollars.

Bob argues that the only way to cripple Mexican drug cartels is through U.S. drug legalization, explaining how prohibition fuels violence and corruption while debunking common libertarian arguments about the drug trade.

Property taxes, by its critics, have correctly been described as unjust, regressive, and inefficient, in addition to having a disproportionate effect on lower-income homeowners who potentially have more of a struggle to pay them.