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Freedom doesn't provide all the answers. Freedom simply allows us to ask our own questions and pursue our own answers.

Saying “all-of-the-above” may sound good, but it resembles the collegiate agnosticism one might hold before reading C.S. Lewis. Instead, we need to proclaim the good news of reliable and affordable energy. My latest National Review: nationalreview.com/2024/09/an-all…

“The ultimate cause of this ‘degeneracy’ (as Hume would call it) lies in many Americans’ unwillingness to contemplate any entitlement cuts whatsoever.” My latest in ⁦Law & Liberty⁩ DAVID HUME AND AMERICA’S DEBT DISASTER ⁦RealClearMarkets⁩ American Institute for Economic Research lawliberty.org/david-hume-and…

What time is it? It's time to revisit this essay by James M. Patterson for Acton Institute: acton.org/religion-liber…

Today’s wisdom from Algis Budrys: “Charging back and forth isn’t progress. Small but steady forward motion is.”

Taxation without representation is the antithesis of freedom. But so too is regulation without representation. Yet federal agencies make many of the biggest policy decisions while ignoring the will of Congress who represent the people. tinyurl.com/ekvm9m6d

The Internet -- on this day, via Phil Magness -- wins again. Hardest hit is the social media team working for Senator Marco Rubio and the fact-free environment favored by protectionists everywhere.

On this date in 1666, the Great Fire of London finally burned itself out, more or less, after destroying thousands of homes, dozens of churches and government buildings, and St. Paul's Cathedral. The fire apparently began in a baker's shop on Pudding Lane — there’s dispute about

"Much of 'The Road to Serfdom' involves Hayek extending Tocqueville’s logic by showing the ratchet effect of the belief that it is worth giving up some liberty to secure other seemingly good ends."⬇️ So I argue in Acton Institute's Religion and Liberty: rlo.acton.org/archives/12586…

Today's wisdom from Algis Budrys: “There are the people in this world who act, and the people who scheme. The ones who act get things done, and the ones who scheme try to take credit for it.”

Here's another nominee for the “Great Moments in Political Journalism” award. E.E. Witherspoon was a longtime editor and respected columnist for the Lexington (NC) Dispatch. For his Oct 11, 1972 column, he cited a survey by the Greensboro Daily News to predict: “Hargrove

In The Wall Street Journal, Freedom Conservatism signatory Vincent Vernuccio reported that the vast majority of private-sector union members — 95% — never voted to join their union. Labor leaders “like this dynamic, which spares them from having to improve conditions,” he wrote. “Yet representation

Today's wisdom from Algis Budrys: “Never try to reason with a man who can see the blade swinging for his head.”

On today's pod, Guy Denton & I talk about Tim Pool and the useful idiots on the Right, who unwittingly fueled Russian propaganda. We also talk Tucker and Churchill, Trump offending white supremacist Nick Fuentes by admitting he lost in 2020, & MUCH more! youtube.com/watch?v=LBZL4k…

Here's how debt servicing interest payment/GDP look over the 2001-2024 period:

“No, Churchill Was Not the Villain.” The best biographer of Churchill weighs in. freebeacon.com/culture/no-chu…

On this date in 1778, Great Britain lost a battle — and a territory — in a war it didn’t yet know it was fighting. After years of dogged American diplomacy, capped off by the American triumph at Saratoga and Washington’s unsuccessful but nevertheless impressive maneuver at

Today’s wisdom from Jack Vance: “If the past is a house of many chambers, then the present is the most recent coat of paint.”