A field report from America’s most self-congratulatory experiment. Inspired by the touching tale of Jennifer Siebel Newsom taking her children to Alabama to learn about racism, I felt moved to…
The Prophet Who Never Paid for Being Wrong With the death of Paul Ehlrich last week, I thought I would provide a more apt obituary than what many of our…
Legalizing Marijuana Was a Mistake — And the Evidence Is Finally Catching Up For more than a decade, Americans were sold a comforting narrative: marijuana legalization would be harmless, profitable,…
The Case for Tort Reform in the United States Tort law was originally designed to compensate individuals harmed by the actions or negligence of others. Over time, it has evolved…
The Ideal Built on a Feel‑Good Fallacy I recently got into an argument on LinkedIn about the idea of a livable wage, like this is a human right and not…
2026 Enters with a bang The Capture of Maduro Not only was this a big shock that this actually happened but how seamlessly the operation was completed. Yes, Maduro and…
How the collapse of South Africa should be a warning to the West. Continued from part 1 How do these people convince people of the revised history of the US?…
How the story of South Africa should be a warning to the West With the rash of political victories by communists Mamdani in New York, Wilson in Seattle and so…
Miscellaneous topics of the week The Ukraine Capitulation I had mentioned previously about the one area where President Trump has struggled with is the Ukraine situation, and it seems like…
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