Politics & Rights
Good Living, Politics & Rights
Toastmasters: A Means to Actualize Your Potential and Improve the Culture
Robert Begley April 5, 2018
Toastmasters can help you learn to speak more confidently and eloquently—and thus to be a more effective advocate of reason and freedom.
History, Philosophy, Politics & Rights, Reviews
The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left, by Dinesh D’Souza
Tom Malone March 28, 2018
D’Souza leaves the actual roots of the American left shrouded. And he paints conservatives as classical liberals. This is D’Souza’s big lie.
Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Dave Rubin and the Argument from Depravity
Jonathan Townley March 22, 2018
Rubin claims socialists aim to create a “perfect system”—which, he says, can’t be done because we’re “imperfect beings.” Ayn Rand has a few things to say about that.
History, Politics & Rights
Patrick Henry’s ‘Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!’ Speech
Robert Begley March 22, 2018
On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry delivered one of the most important and dramatic speeches in American history. May Henry’s words live on and inspire all who continue fighting for freedom.
Politics & Rights
Free Speech, Property, and the Right to Discriminate
Ryan Puzycki March 15, 2018
The U.S. government, which finally corrected the historic injustice of states denying gays the right to marry, should not now commit a new injustice by denying the rights of bakers to use their property as they see fit.
History, Politics & Rights
‘Act Worthy of Yourselves’: Joseph Warren on Defending Liberty
Tom Malone March 6, 2018
"I know you would not turn your faces from your foes, but will, undauntedly, press forward, until tyranny is trodden under foot, and you have fixed your adored goddess Liberty, on the American throne." —Dr. Joseph Warren
Ayn Rand & Objectivism, History, Politics & Rights
William F. Buckley: Cowardly, Dishonest, Unjust, Racist, and Loved by Conservatives
Craig Biddle February 27, 2018
On the anniversary of William F. Buckley’s death, conservatives will spend the week pretending that he was a man of principle, civility, dignity. He was not.
History, Politics & Rights
Happy Birthday, George Washington!
Jon Hersey February 22, 2018
Washington recognized that we must choose daily to support freedom. Otherwise, we lose it, bit by bit, to those who favor force and tyranny.
History, Politics & Rights, Reviews
RooseveltCare: How Social Security Is Sabotaging the Land of Self-Reliance by Don Watkins
Jon Hersey January 24, 2018
RooseveltCare makes clear that resolving the debt crisis by ending the entitlement state is imperative both morally and practically.
Politics & Rights
Altruism on Parade: Unity in the “March for Life” and the Women’s March
Ryan Puzycki January 23, 2018
Both the “March for Life” and the Women’s March are driven by altruism—the notion that morality requires sacrifice by (or of) some for others.