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Measurement errors regarding COVID-19 run rampant, and this faulty science is supposed to inform public policy that affects hundreds of millions of Americans.
With only a slight rephrasing, C. S. Lewis' masterwork reveals a great deal about the 2020 election and American politics at large.
Allegations that higher-income earners don’t pay their “fair share” of taxes are a mainstay misrepresentation of the political left.
Many modern politicians are decrying a loss of democracy in America, but America's founders never intended for it to be a democracy.
When it comes to government, do we need the silver rule?
As electoral competition heats up this year, we will see politicians decrying opponents' negative attacks at the same time they are launching their own negative attacks. That inconsistency will be maddening.
The phrase does nothing to address one's argument.
On July 4th, Americans celebrate our freedoms. Unfortunately, we all but ignore the only President born on Independence Day—Calvin Coolidge, who, though denigrated by historians, produced remarkable results without sacrificing them
Justice and liberty have no better spokesman than Cicero.
Leonard Read wrote about “When Wishes Become Rights,” in his 1967 Deeper Than You Think.
October 25 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the man Isaiah Berlin characterized as “the most eloquent of all defenders of freedom and privacy.”
Americans cannot have both liberty and social justice.
James Fenimore Cooper's 1838 civics primer might come in handy in the Neil Gorsuch confirmation hearings.
Rand sold more than 30 million books. Atlas Shrugged has been ranked behind only the Bible as an influence on readers’ lives.
An army of federal bureaucrats wields enormous power through rule-making, imposing steep costs on Americans.
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