Media and Culture

As progressives attempt to redefine racism to fit modern political fantasies, we need to look at historical examples of ethnic discrimination to better understand our current situation.

The New York Times recently characterized House Republicans that voted to extend government domestic spying and continue to fund wars in the Middle East and Ukraine as “the adults in the room.” This is ironic, as real adults would not spend the country into oblivion. 

Individual rights originated in Western thinking. Today, it is the West that produces the ruling class that disdains individual rights and replaces them with collectivism.

On the 27th of March, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed an executive order which had the purpose of curbing speech deemed as “anti-semitic” on all

In our current age of rampant monetary inflation and price inflation, good economics has become more relevant for ordinary people. Inflation is not some arcane matter of consumer price indices and statistics on the monetary base. Inflation, is simply ruinous on the personal level.

Washington Post conservative George Will trots out every tired slogan and bromide in the book to claim that Putin is Hitler and the Ukraine war is a fight for civilization. 

Feminist theorist Judith Butler is calling for mandatory education to confront children with modern gender theory. As David Gordon points out, she wants to use coercion to force people to accept her theories.

The academic world is supposed to serve as a beacon of enlightenment. Instead, as Wanjiru Njoya demonstrates, it promotes a failed liberalism.

Libertarianism is criticized on all sides, but a new criticism has emerged that claims libertarianism is little more than another form of critical theory. Like the other complaints, this one is based on fallacious thinking.

The enemies of individual liberty are numerous, from leftists who see freedom as interfering with the “positive freedoms” offered by the state to conservatives that believe too much freedom destroys community relationships.