Politics

For most Americans, the debate is about what size the welfare state should be. But why is there a welfare state at all? 

Government officials like to claim they are doing something about reducing poverty. The trouble is, of course, that what they are doing makes things worse. Here on Income Tax Day, we recommend that next time, they should do nothing.

Why have some Americans opposed this nation’s involvement in foreign wars? According to Jacob Heilbrunn of The National Interest, it is because those Americans love bloody dictators like Adolph Hitler.

Remember when inflation was “transitory”? Or when Paul Krugman claimed inflation was “under control”? The numbers keep telling us a different story.

Private property rights are under fire by progressive elites — even as those same elites protect their own property fiercely. But without these rights, a functioning economy is not possible.

Individual rights originated in Western thinking. Today, it is the West that produces the ruling class that disdains individual rights and replaces them with collectivism.

The New York Times recently characterized House Republicans that voted to extend government domestic spying and continue to fund wars in the Middle East and Ukraine as “the adults in the room.” This is ironic, as real adults would not spend the country into oblivion. 

People often stubbornly hold to false beliefs, one of them being that government regulation of driving prevents chaos. However, the opposite seems to be true: government involvement in anything, including driving a car, creates the chaos we claim we want to avoid.

Connor O'Keeffe joins Bob to discuss the recent antisemitism bill and why we should be defunding universities. 

Ryan and Tho are joined by Peter St. Onge, a visiting fellow of the Heritage Foundation, to discuss the state and trajectory of the American economy.