Politics

Everyone loves to have time off, but what happens when governments force people not to work against their will?

The stereotype of the Prussian as the militaristic, state-loving creature probably needs to be rethought. The history of Prussia and its people is more complicated than contemporary historians wish to admit.

As the birthrate falls in the US and other industrialized countries, we find that government intervention into the economy and family life is a big reason this is happening.

By branding censorship as “safety,” surveillance as “protection,” and political conformity as “civic duty,” European states have constructed a system where dissent is pathologized and criminalized. The UK is following the same dystopian path.

Few Marxists admit to being Marxists. Instead, they are true believers in the creation of the utopian society—if only the rest of us will give them the power they deserve.

California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax is being sold to voters as a way to replenish the state’s tax coffers with billions of new dollars. What it actually will do is to end the vital capital investment that has driven California’s economy for decades.

Mark Thornton explains how ideology can break the uniparty, why blocked realignment risks revolution, and why Austrian economics helps young Americans see through the crisis.

Fauci is back in the limelight after the release of his diary before a Senate hearing last week. And that’s good, because the career of Anthony Fauci can teach us a lot about where power actually resides in America and how our system really works.

An article of faith with modern progressives is that all social problems can be solved with the growth and application of the administrative state. They have faith in the wrong thing.

Dinesh D’Souza—a self-proclaimed opponent of “revisionist history”—reinterprets the Declaration of Independence through anachronism and equivocation, reading modern concepts of nationhood and equality back into 1776.