Politics

We must first build institutions that can replace the state. Institutions like families, churches, and schools.

Democracy, or at least the “democracy” that ensures the “right people” are elected, is the religion of American progressives. Despite its obvious failures, however, progressives claim that democracy is the Holy Grail of governance. Why people believe this is another question.

Recently, EdChoice published its 2024 iteration of its annual Schooling in America

This year's presidential election is presented in stark terms of right and left, Trump on the right and Harris on the left. However, it is more realistic to say that both candidates are to the left of where electoral politics was located just a couple decades ago.

After Trump narrowly escaped another assassination attempt, the establishment seems uninterested in the motives of the would-be shooter. Perhaps that’s because he’s echoing the same simplistic narratives about the Ukraine war and Trump that they demand we all believe.

When passed in 1972, Title IX was hailed as a way to ensure women on college campuses received equal treatment to males. Today‘s Title IX is a bureaucratic nightmare, eviscerating due process of law and creating a tyrannical atmosphere on campus.

Would America’s federal government deliberately undermine recovery efforts to try to achieve its own desired political ends? Of course.

The true aim of our political system is to transfer wealth to the government and the politically-connected.

Tuesday night’s Vice-Presidential Debate was remarkable not for what was said (which was forgettable), but for what was not asked: What should be the proper role of government in what purports to be a free society? Neither candidates nor the moderators were interested in that question.

Western governments are keen on pursuing “hate crimes” and criminalizing what it calls “hate symbols.” However, these governments reserve to themselves just how one defines “hate,” which is nothing more than an attack upon free speech.