Blog Posts
How About a Genuine America-First Policy?
If an “America first” policy is supposed to promote American self-interest, the obvious first question is: What defines an entire country’s interest? What public-policy goal…
Analyzing the Hamas Sympathizers
The suffering of others may warrant compassion—but only if the suffering is undeserved. Someone wrongly imprisoned can elicit your compassion--but not someone who is rightly…
Science as Political Orthodoxy
There is an intellectual orthodoxy being imposed by the left, abetted by much of the news media. Certain viewpoints are forbidden—not simply regarded as wrong,…
Movie Review: APOLLO 11
You wouldn’t think that a movie about the Apollo 11 mission that consists simply of footage shot at the time of the event could present…
Has the Right Been Eviscerated by Trump?
Once upon a time the left and the right were political opposites. The left condemned capitalism and sought to expand government’s role in our lives;…
Cato Institute, Anarchism and Principles
I’ve long argued that the modern libertarian movement was born out of a visceral hostility to the state rather than an intellectual opposition to statism.…