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In evaluating the state of America’s foreign policy, consider the following three events now in the headlines: In discussing the murderous Islamist attacks on American diplomats in Benghazi, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered “context” for this outrage: “Since 1988, there have been 19 Accountability Review Boards investigating attacks on…

Here's a video of Andrew Bernstein delivering his speech "Religion vs. Morality" at The Objective Standard's mini-conference in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Bernstein will be debating Christian conservative Dinesh D'Souza on the subject of "Christianity: Good or Bad for Mankind?" on February 8 in Austin, TX. Be sure to purchase auditorium tickets in…

In his second inaugural address, Barack Obama claimed that the massive federal “entitlement” programs pushing the nation into unprecedented levels of debt—and threatening worse problems down the road—actually “strengthen us” as Americans: [W]e remember the lessons of our past, when twilight years were spent in poverty and parents of a…

FrackNation—the new feature-length documentary that sets the record straight on the process of hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas—will debut on television tomorrow, Tuesday, January 22, on AXS TV. (See my recent post about the film here.) FrackNation presents real-life fracking success stories and shows that the process is…

Unlike so many ersatz advocates of liberty, Martin Luther King Jr. revered both the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

The Livestream option for viewing the debate between Dinesh D’Souza and Andrew Bernstein—Christianity: Good or Bad for Mankind?—is now available for purchase. This event, which will be held on February 8 at 7:00 PM CST in Austin, TX, will be the first time a major religious intellectual has debated a…

(If you’re new to Joshua’s situation, please see my earlier posts here, here, here, and here.) I’m delighted to announce that Joshua Lipana’s most recent CT Scan shows across-the-board improvements, including “Near complete resolution of mediastinal abnormality.” What was a five-inch by two-inch tumor in Joshua’s chest has been reduced…

The American government’s refusal to destroy the Iranian theocracy has allowed Iran’s influence to increase, thus increasing the danger to American lives. As Roger F. Noriega, Cresencio S. Arcos Jr., Otto Reich, Mark D. Wallace—board members of United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI)—write: The Iranian regime's effort to improve ties with…

In The K-12 Implosion, Glenn Reynolds makes a commonsense argument that government-run schools are in a bubble—a bubble that is ready to pop. He notes, for example, that the government has spent ever-increasing amounts of money on K-12 education but can show for it no positive returns, only negative ones—and…

Mohamed Morsi, the Islamist president of Egypt and a former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, tried to pacify his critics on Wednesday by claiming that his recently reported anti-Semitic remarks were “taken out of context.” Morsi insists that his comments were intended not as racial slurs but as criticism of…

Teacher evaluation is all the rage today. The “central question” confronting the education establishment, writes Lyndsey Layton in the Washington Post, is, “What’s the best way to identify an effective educator?” And, Layton notes: After a three-year, $45 million research project, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation believes it has…

The raw figures are extraordinary: From May, 2010, to November, 2012, the percent of Americans from teens to adults who owned an e-book reader grew five-fold, from 4 to 19. Meanwhile, the percent of Americans owning either a dedicated e-book reader or a tablet computer (popular for reading e-books) grew…

The blogger Publius makes an extraordinary claim: If in America “black men [were] murdered at the same rate as everyone else, the overall [homicide] rate would drop to 1.9 out of 100,000 population. That would give the United States the 147th highest murder rate in the world.” This raises two…

In her Philosophy in Action podcast on Wednesday, philosopher Diana Hsieh interviewed Institute for Justice attorney Paul Sherman on the topic of free speech in elections. The interview is remarkable in how clearly it presents the core issues of campaign finance restrictions. Sherman deftly explains the various legal restrictions on…

A new feature-length documentary on the hotly debated subject of hydraulic fracturing—a technology for extracting oil and natural gas—debuted last week in New York and Los Angeles. FrackNation, a production of Ann and Phelim Media LLC, presents the facts surrounding this controversial technology and counters many of the misconceptions surrounding…