Commentary Per CNN and other media outlets, when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ran his first campaign for Congress in 2012, he expressed support for “privatizing” Social Security. They predict, with little surprise, that this should provide red meat for attacks from former President Donald Trump and from Democrats, should DeSantis announce a presidential run. If…

Commentary The average American home is almost 2,200 square feet. An average home in the United Kingdom is a minuscule 818 square feet, in Finland 880 square feet, and in Germany under 1,200 square feet. Cramped. Americans have bigger houses and a higher material standard of living—more appliances, clothing, and cars—largely because they can keep…

This article is adapted from the book “Plutocratic Socialism: The Future of Private Property and the Fate of the Middle Class.” The American constitutional order assumes a populace of property owners, a middle class whose virtues provide the necessary ballast to support our republic. Our founders imagined strong communities, strong families, and independent citizens capable…

Commentary We all have probably imagined a life of ease at some time in our lives. The dream or notion of arriving at the proverbial “Easy Street” has been a recurring theme in America for generations. The Democratic Party seems to want to make that dream a reality for all Americans with its plans for…

 Commentary In 1979, historian Clarence B. Carson (1926–2003) published a book titled “The World in the Grip of an Idea.” The idea that Carson explored was collectivism in its various forms—e.g., fascism, socialism, communism, to which we can add today, environmentalism. Collectivistic ideas certainly have a strong grip on America today, and particularly on the…

President Joe Biden on Friday sent Congress a $6 trillion budget proposal that would spend big on infrastructure, climate change, and social welfare packages, while creating projected deficits of at least $1.3 trillion per year until 2030. If passed, the plan, which faces strong opposition from Republican lawmakers, would make the biggest sustained government spending since World War II….

WASHINGTON—Ahead of his first address to a joint session of Congress on April 28, President Joe Biden rolled out his third spending proposal, American Families Plan, which according to liberals would be a “great achievement” if passed by Congress. Opponents, however, criticize Biden’s massive spending plan, calling it the largest expansion of the welfare state…

The Biden administration is planning to drastically expand the nation’s welfare state through increased child allowance grants quietly added into the latest stimulus, which some experts say is a lead-in toward universal basic income. Under the $1.9 trillion bill, the annual child tax credit was increased to $3,000 per child aged between six to 17,…

Commentary This is not an exercise in hindsight—discussing what we could or should have done differently in 2020—but an examination of that year’s political trends, which represent a growing threat to freedom, social peace, and economic prosperity in Canada. The trends that pose this threat were driven by leaders in the world of academia, media,…

Commentary A century ago, by stealth and circumstance, socialism crept into Canadian society. It has since become entrenched, part of our ethos, for we’re proud of our mixed economy, our medicare, our bailouts, our social safety net, and our Crown corporations. Yet they come at a cost. Big government, the nanny state, the welfare state—call…