Commentary Just this weekend, I spoke at one of my favorite venues, the Liberty Forum in New Hampshire, which is an annual conference center on the Free State Project. It’s designed to encourage people to pick up and move to the freest state in the country for community and to help protect the state from…
Jim Banks Leads House GOP Crusade Against Wokeism
Commentary At a time when Republicans are increasingly asserting themselves in battles over a coterie of acronyms that have captured the commanding heights of American society—ESG, DEI, and CRT—Rep. Jim Banks has emerged as a leader in the GOP-controlled House of the fight against the “wokeism” these theories collectively represent. A fourth-term congressman from Indiana, Banks has…
Government Employee Accountability ‘Basically Nonexistent’: Book Review
Commentary On Primary morning, The Sacramento Bee published then-editorialist Daniel Weintraub’s observations of the June 6, 2006, elections. His thoughts and warnings still resonate some seventeen years later: The Orange County treasurer, who rose to fame 12 years ago as the first to warn that the county’s investment portfolio was in danger of collapse just…
America’s $100 Billion Climate Change Flop
March 7, 2023
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Commentary For at least the last 20 years, politicians in Washington, at the behest of green energy groups, have spent some $100 billion of taxpayer money to fight climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. How is that going for us so far? A recent Associated Press story, based on the latest data on global…
The Ideas that Formed the Constitution, Part 21: Coke, Blackstone, and English Law
Commentary British institutions were important (although not controlling) models for the American Constitution-makers. For example, the Constitution’s bicameral federal Congress had some similarities with the British Parliament. The Constitution built on the British concept of individual rights. The new U.S. postal system was a continuation of its British predecessor, with the Constitution borrowing its “Post…
The Attack of the Subversive Elites
Commentary It is tempting, as Naomi Wolf has done recently, to ascribe the breakdown of Western civilization to the debasing of “Judeo-Christian” ethics and the reemergence of malignant supernatural forces. Witnessing the many assaults on the infrastructure and social order of the United States of late, I wouldn’t rule out metaphysical causality either. But to blame…
The Economic Upheaval Has Just Begun
March 7, 2023
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Commentary This weekend, a good man who owns a landscaping business came up to the microphone during a question and answer period following my speech at an event. He posed a simple but sincere question. He has endless demands for his services. He has all the capital he needs. He has a thriving business with…
Barbara Kay: Rooting out ‘Wrongthink’ Is the Mission of Ideologues Who Have Captured the Publishing Industry
Commentary Why are so many children drawn to books in which the parents are absent—death or abandonment—and the step-parent or guardian hostile? From “Snow White” to “Cinderella,” through “Anne of Green Gables” and “Harry Potter,” these stories take flight from a parentless child’s insecurity and loneliness. The answer, I think, is that children’s deepest fears…
Mines Are Devastating Ukraine
Commentary People in conflict zones have been using mines since the U.S. Civil War—but, what’s going on in Ukraine today is unique in history. For one, it’s happening at a larger scale than we’ve seen since World War II. Ukraine has the second-largest area of all European countries, and already large parts of it have been contaminated…
New WHO Amendments Creating a Global Regime in the Name of Health
Since its establishment, the World Health Organization (WHO) has assumed the role of an advisory entity in the international health domain. Since 2005, the WHO established International Health Regulations (IHR) as the main compliance tool to ensure that public health emergencies would be handled swiftly. The COVID pandemic perfectly illustrates how powerful the WHO already…
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