“The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both.” — Milton Friedman
Climate Change — Science or Politics?
What historians will certainly worry about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of...
Saturday Morning Wisdom — Quotable Quotes
Saturday morning seems like a good time to slow down from the week’s rush and feast on the wisdom to be found in some quotable...
The Paper Tiger That Roared
Andrew Sullivan has called President Trump a paper tiger. He’s referring to Trump’s threat to impose a 5% tariff on Mexico to increase by additional...
Trump sits for interview with Piers Morgan
On Wednesday Trump sat for an interview with Piers Morgan. When Morgan was on CNN he was such a prig. I don’t watch CNN but...
Today is D-Day + 75
The featured image is the American military cemetery above Omaha Beach in Colleville-sur-Mer. When Charles de Gaulle threatened to withdraw from NATO and wanted Americans...
Why We Can’t Debate Socialism With Socialists
If you’ve ever tried to debate socialism with a socialist you know very well why we can’t debate socialism with socialists. Debate is an exchange...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Memorial Day Speech At Keene, New Hampshire — 1884
Below are the opening and concluding paragraphs from “In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire”, a speech delivered by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr....
Victor Davis Hanson Would Have Been A Great Trial Lawyer
Victor Davis Hanson is a classics scholar writing such books as A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, and The...
Why America Will Never Be A Socialist Country
In his state of the union address, with Pelosi scowling behind him, President Trump said, “America will never be a socialist country.” There are at...