Politics

From the economy to foreign policy, Ryan, Tho, and Zach take a look at where we're headed in the next year. 

The recent murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last month has brought an outpouring of joy from American progressives. Their response is reflective of their hatred for any good or service that is not directly provided by the state.

2024 was a rough year for the Washington establishment as its control over public discourse continued to collapse. While this is an excellent development, the year also previewed the adoption of a new, more fruitful establishment strategy: co-option.

2024 was a rough year for the Washington establishment as its control over public discourse continued to collapse. While this is an excellent development, the year also previewed the adoption of a new, more fruitful establishment strategy: co-option.

By misusing statistics, the government claims that racial disparities are always caused by racial discrimination and that these disparities can only be rectified by state-directed outcomes. However, government programs have made things much worse.

Wanjiru Njoya appears on Focus Today with Perry Atkinson.

Modern historians tend to view the post-Civil War Reconstruction period as a time when the victorious northern states attempted to bring law and order to the South. However, by establishing a de facto police state, the North further poisoned relationships between whites and freed slaves.

What happens when the Department of Government Efficiency fails? Human devolution or political revolution? Or both? Mark Thornton discusses some pertinent lessons from the French Revolution.

The idea that the state can provide services and other advantages to its citizens that did not previously exist is in contrast to the arguments of state protection—a fallacy that ought to be dismissed outright.

Ryan McMaken, Tho Bishop, and Zachary Yost discuss the theory of international realism and its application to the military actions of the Russian state in Ukraine and Georgia.