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True Spirit Lifted by Individual Courage, Tenacity, and Mental Toughness
Heroic sailing circumnavigation raises serious questions about parental responsibilities
Samuel R. Staley | March 28, 2023
How Government Lost 15 Million Acres of Public Land
Non-market allocations of resources are doomed to result in catastrophic waste and mismanagement, evidenced by a recent New York Times story exploring how ‘millions of acres of public lands aren’t really open to the public.’
Saul Zimet | March 21, 2023
Over a Million Students Left District Schools. Are They Learning?
If parents are satisfied with the quality of their children's learning environment, then the rest of us should be too.
Kerry McDonald | March 21, 2023
PBS Ignores Angela Davis’s Political Roots
Angela Davis was a member of the Communist Party USA, founded and funded by the Soviet Union
K. Lloyd Billingsley | March 13, 2023
Mask Mandates Didn’t Help, but It Gets Worse
We’ve learned a lot about mask effectiveness. But have we learned anything about means and ends?
Jon Miltimore | March 7, 2023
Unpopular Truths Need to Be Told
Freedom needs fearless truth-tellers
Dan Sanchez | March 7, 2023
How the AI Wars Are Proving That Google Isn’t a Monopoly
If Google is really a monopoly, why would investors be worried about a competitor developing a new product?
Danny Duchamp | February 28, 2023
The Assemblywomen by Aristophanes
The ancient Greek play that mercilessly (and hilariously) mocked socialism and democracy
Jon Miltimore | February 28, 2023
The History of Slavery You Weren’t Taught in School
Slavery cannot be justified or excused by enlightened people, but it can be studied, explained, put in context, and understood—if all the facts of it are in the equation
Lawrence W. Reed | February 21, 2023
Lockdown Governors Largely Go Unpunished
Whitmer, DeWine cruise to re-election as COVID authoritarianism fades from voters' memories.
Brady Leonard | February 21, 2023
López Obrador´s Honeymoon With Cuba
Mexico´s president questionably honors Díaz-Canel
Alvaro Vargas Llosa | February 20, 2023
Western Progressives Loved Stalinism and Maoism
Modern socialists may prefer to distance themselves from Stalin and Mao, but progressives were singing a very different tune in the twentieth century
Jon Miltimore | February 14, 2023