I always stress the importance of reading and listening outside your comfort zone. Echo chambers are inherently mentally stultifying. As J S Mill, the great philosopher of free speech, said, not hearing an opinion is robbing yourself, as well as the other person. After all, if they’re right, you’
Casey Harper (The Center Square) thecentersquare.com Casey Harper is a Senior Reporter for the Washington, D.C. Bureau. He previously worked for The Daily Caller, The Hill and Sinclair Broadcast Group. A graduate of Hillsdale College, Casey’s work has also appeared in Fox News, Fox Business and USA
Capitalist In 2020 Los Angeles [county] narrowly elected a man called George Gascon as its district attorney. He has been a disaster, having no particular interest in actually prosecuting criminals and setting many free; the crime rate has soared to anarchic levels. Tucker Carlson, the Fox News broadcaster, has highlighted
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Warning Long Read. 1452 words. On April 24 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope was launched. If instead of looking into space, one had turned its gaze toward Earth, one could have clearly distinguished those countries based on a capitalist democratic philosophy and those based on socialist principles… by how many
The same media who are still refusing to tell their audience the plain truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop would also have us believe that they ain’t got nuthin’, nuthin’, see? on Hillary Clinton. Whatever you do, don’t believe any o’ that there Russian disinformation about, um, Russian
As I’ve written before, the selection of Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s vice-president was a genius move by the puppet-masters of a senescent leader whose brain appears to be on a permanent rinse-cycle. Whenever someone might be tempted to admit the obvious and point out that the President
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Tom Mullen fee.org Tom Mullen hosts the Tom Mullen Talks Freedom podcast and is the author of Where Do Conservatives and Liberals Come From? And What Ever Happened to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness? and A Return to Common Sense: Reawakening Liberty in the Inhabitants of America.
Boy, couldn’t we all do with some of President Trump’s mean tweets, right now? I mean, if the price of a clique of online leftists and legacy media hacks being perpetually outraged is a booming American economy and more stable world with no war in Europe, well, bring
Periodically on social media, I have encountered memes praising Daryl Davis, the black musician who has made something of a career out of befriending and converting KKK members. Certainly, Davis is an incredible human being, but I often wonder why no one says much about the ex-Klansmen he counts as
Jeff Deist mises.org Jeff Deist is president of the Mises Institute, where he serves as a writer, public speaker and advocate for property, markets and civil society. He previously worked as a longtime advisor and chief of staff to Congressman Ron Paul, for whom he wrote hundreds of articles
Louis T March mercatornet.com Louis T March has a background in government, business and philanthropy. A former talk show host, author and public speaker, he is a dedicated student of history and genealogy. Louis lives with his family in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. One thing demographers have
Rupert Darwall cfact.org Rupert Darwall is a Senior Fellow at the RealClear Foundation. Warning Long Read. 1400 words. Since Russia attacked Ukraine two months ago, Western governments have been learning the hard way about the critical importance of energy to their national security. Germany’s 20-year, trillion-dollar “Energiewende” (Energy
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
For some strange reason, the Washington Post, which obsessively printed everything its team deemed a “lie” from President Trump, abruptly stopped counting the moment Joe Biden took office. Well, perhaps not so strange, really: the legacy media are desperately covering for the Biden White House in any way they can.
