Why Business Should Dispense with ESG
by Samuel Gregg “Milton Friedman’s shareholder doctrine is dead.” Such was the headline of a 2020 Fortune magazine article critiquing Friedman’s famous New York Times opinion piece which, fifty years earlier, had argued that the social responsibility ...
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Federal Farmer: Senate Will be “Source of the Greatest Evils”
By: TJ Martinell While the anti-federalist Federal Farmer was critical of the proposed House of Representatives for having too few members, he was even more harsh toward the proposed Senate. Ironically, he ...
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Don’t Trust the Government with Your Privacy, Property or Your Freedoms
By: John Whitehead How do you trust a government that continuously sidesteps the Constitution and undermines our rights? You can’t. When you consider all the ways “we the people” are being ...
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The ideas that formed the Constitution: Cicero Continued
By: Rob Natelson The previous installment in this series outlined the life and career of the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero. It described how John Adams relied on Cicero’s work in the preface ...
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THE DEEP STATE’S TYRANNY ENDURES
by DAVID S. D’AMATO Much ink has been spilled over the past few years on the subject of “the deep state”—what it is, who operates it, where it is located, ...
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Gas stoves bad. Gene therapy good.
by Karen De Coster Sorry Paul Craig Roberts, but this is not the tyranny of good intentions. This is purposeful tyranny conducted in the name of destroying western civilization. And ...
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The Constitution Failed. It Secured Neither Peace nor Freedom.
by Ryan McMaken If one cares to look, it's not difficult to find numerous columns written for mainstream news outlets announcing that the US Constitution has failed. This ought to ...
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Common Sense: A Scathing Attack on Unlimited, Centralized Power
By: Michael Boldin January 10, 1776. Today in history, Thomas Paine published the first edition of Common Sense – a 47 page pamphlet that defended and inspired the cause of independence like no ...
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The ideas that formed the Constitution: Cicero
By: Rob Natelson The first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth essays in this series addressed the influence on the Constitution of four leading Greek thinkers. There is one more Greek on our list, the biographer Plutarch. He lived ...
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Truth and the Foundations of a Free Republic
By Paul E. Scates The philosophy of relativism claims that all truth is relative, and that there is no such thing as absolute truth. (Of course, if relativism is true, then based on ...
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