Giving thanks for the quiet return of faith and fatherhood.
Only in the world’s richest country could tens of millions of people persuade themselves that refusing to buy a cup of coffee for 24 hours constitutes a coherent form of economic protest.
Health care doesn’t actually have to break the bank; its inaffordability can actually be solved.
Aristotle’s observations about the necessity of the middle class have been echoed by at least two of the greatest leaders of American history.
The alleged shooter who ambushed two National Guardsmen in D.C. is an Afghan national, brought here under Joe Biden.
You’ll be surprised how the news and editorial sections of the Wall Street Journal respectively covered the same event.
Two soldiers were just shot in D.C. One is dead, and the other clinging to life. Yet, the left blames Trump.
If the dollar ceases to be the world’s reserve currency, that might be a good thing, provided the world moves over to gold instead.
Leftists are opaque to the idea of gratitude.
America is worth the fight.
While the specter of Vietnam hung over U.S. foreign policy, it served as a reminder to the Establishment that Americans would not undertake the impossible task of remaking a world that they had little interest in or control over.
Politicians love to use ‘affordability’ as a slogan to run on. Here’s the truth.
Fani's case is history.
Be careful travelling this weekend, as there are still hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens with CDLs on our roads.
He said, "We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence."
Was this perhaps Trump’s most brilliant rope-a-dope?
This revelation, if true, is not the first time Binance has helped to fund terrorism.
An NYC-adjacent community plans a wall and high-tech border security.
Out of the American Revolution emerged a unique political ideology or system of belief – republicanism. Whether Anti-Federalist or Federalist, Democratic-Republican or Federalist, Democratic-Republican or National-Republican, Democrat or Whig, this vision lay at the center of Americans’ beliefs. It remains today the root of what we as a people believe.…
I was born (a few months before the Crash) at 4:20 PM on February 11, 1929, in the Crotona Park Hospital, the Bronx, New York. My mother: a pert 20-year-old, my father, 26, a bon vivant. Both were homegrown New Yorkers, and I would be an only child. From a…
Compiling this list was a difficult task. There were many excellent books published during the past ten years, and it’s hard to select twelve as the best. All of the following, though, are outstanding works. They are not listed in any order of merit 1. John Attarian, Social Security: False…
Where Keynes Went Wrong And Why Governments Keep Creating Inflation, Bubbles, and Busts. By Hunter Lewis. Axios Press, 2009. Vi + 384 pages. Defenders of Keynes, such as the recent convert Bruce Bartlett, often claim that he supported capitalism. (Bartlett’s The New American Economy has this as a primary theme.)…
Killing in War. By Jeff McMahan. Oxford University Press, 2009. Xii + 250 pages. Jeff McMahan has written a genuinely revolutionary book. He has uncovered a flaw in standard just-war theory. The standard view sharply separates the morality of going to war, jus ad bellum, from the morality of warfare,…
David Gordon is Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute and Distinguished Columnist at LewRockwell.com. He is also author of Resurrecting Marx and An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and editor of numerous books including Strictly Confidential: The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard. Send him mail.
Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed. By Christopher C. Horner. Regnery, 2008. Viii + 407 pages. An audio version of this review, read by Dr. Floy Lilley, is available as a free MP3 download. Those of us who refuse to…
DIGG THIS Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s Archenemy Betrayed the American Revolution — and What It Means for America Today. By Thomas J. DiLorenzo. Crown Forum. 2008. 245 pages. After you read the dedication of Hamilton’s Curse, you know that the book is going to be good: “Dedicated to the memory…
DIGG THIS Burt Blumert was one of the closest friends of Murray and Joey Rothbard, and it was in that connection that I met him in 1979. As he often did, he had invited the Rothbards to dinner and I was fortunate enough to be included as well. It was…
DIGG THIS Anarchism/Minarchism: Is a Government Part of a Free Country? Edited by Roderick T. Long and Tibor R. Machan. Ashgate, 2008. Xi + 196 pages. An MP3 audio version of this book review, read by Dr. Floy Lilley, is available for download. Libertarians of course believe in the free…