15+ hour, 55+ min ago   (458+ words) Everybody says they want freedom, but most people really don’t, mainly because they don’t know what true freedom is. And if they did, they would—and do — reject it. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom,” Benjamin Franklin wrote,…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (903+ words) This 25th anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack ever on American soil may be as good an occasion as any to pay a moment’s attention to the subject of patriotism. As the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre correctly noted, patriotism, first and…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (579+ words) For over a century and a half, however, home distilling has been illegal. The Supreme Court could soon step in. In 2024, Ream, with the help of the Buckeye Institute, challenged the federal distilling prohibition. After all, if Congress can prohibit…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (655+ words) Artificial intelligence just handed America a warning about its electric grid. We should be grateful for it. For 20 years, electricity demand stayed roughly flat. Policymakers pushed utilities toward wind and solar while sidelining coal, natural gas, and nuclear plants, the…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (331+ words) The Japanese were wrong in 1941 and found out, pretty quickly, that they were wrong. But the Japanese didn’t succeed in stopping America. Osama bin Laden didn’t succeed in humbling the country. And if the hate-America immigrants think they are going…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (615+ words) American steelworkers are finally seeing real investment pour into their mills, and some union leaders still act like it’s a problem. The U.S. Steel contract expires September 1. Negotiations are underway and a very serious offer of 18 percent in wage increases…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (595+ words) Republicans have spent months calling nearly everyone with a big D next to their name a socialist. And it’s not just the new crop that includes Zohran Mamdani, Abdul El-Sayed, and James Talarico. It’s been a reliable attack since proud…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (284+ words) Gallup found that 91% of Democrats, 90% of independents, and 83% of Republicans believe government corruption is widespread. Americans cannot agree on immigration, taxation, abortion, foreign policy, health care, or the definition of a woman, yet they have reached near-unanimous agreement that the…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1209+ words) My daughter Katie was 20 years old when she was killed on January 19, 2025, in Urbana, Illinois. She was visiting friends at the University of Illinois, sitting in the back seat of a car stopped at a red light. An intoxicated illegal…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (786+ words) “America’s state religion, is ‘patriotism,’ a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that ‘treason’ is morally worse than murder or rape.” ~ William Blum One meaningless jingoistic cliché I am subjected to constantly is “I love my country.” This…...