6+ hour, 43+ 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, 1+ hour ago   (568+ words) You are probably familiar with the Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Such was the course of life of the Marquis de Lafayette. As Americans, we are likely not to understand that the French nobleman's life involved far…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (285+ words) Valerie is Ideas Editor at The Dispatch, based in New York City. Prior to joining the company in 2025, she worked at The New York Times and NewsGuard Technologies, and she is currently a Novak Fellow through The Fund for American…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (861+ words) “Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell and George the Third may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.” — Patrick Henry The man of “Give me liberty or give me death!” fame…...

2+ day, 6+ 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…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (381+ words) One weekday morning about a decade ago, I was at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue in New York City, waiting in line to go to confession. My pre-sacrament reverie was broken by the sight of a seemingly heavily armed…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1226+ words) Synergy between Jews and Arabs is what makes Israel work.When I used to find myself in New York, I enjoyed... How Israel Really Works Synergy between Jews and Arabs is what makes Israel work. When I used to find…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (116+ words) Do you remember that line? It was spoken by The Chimp (he will always be The Chimp) 25 years ago, in the aftermath of what we were assured was a dastardly sneak attack by “Islamic terrorists” on the World Trade Center…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (728+ words) I spent the past weekend as a participant in the annual Ron Paul Institute conference that takes place in the Washington area, in northern Virginia. This year the theme was “Front Row at the Revolution” and the circa 500 attendees that…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (417+ words) For the life of me, I just cannot understand why anyone would choose serfdom over freedom. After all, we’ve been given only one life to live. Wouldn’t it be better to live that one life in freedom rather than serfdom?...