The True Test of One’s Commitment to Free Speech
Editors Note: We agree that people have a right to say reprehensible and ignorant things. We don’t think the state should do anything to curtail their right to speak. However, private actors such as employers have every right to take their views into consideration when hiring. Those who wish to speak should be free to […]
Shining a Light on Zuck Bucks in the 2020 Battleground States
How close were our estimates to CTCL’s final disclosures? Editor’s Note: May 28, 2024: Updated Texas analysis with new data. January 18, 2022: Analysis completed for all states. The Capital Research Center was among the first to unearth hundreds of millions of dollars in “Zuck bucks” flowing from the family of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to, first, the Center […]
Judge Commits Fraud to Accuse Trump of Fraud
In the high stakes New York trial of leading presidential candidate Donald Trump, Judge Arthur Engoron ruled in September that Trump defrauded his lenders by inflating the value of his famed Mar-a-Lago estate by “at least 2,300%, compared” to an “appraisal” by the Palm Beach County Tax Assessor. Several news outlets from left to right challenged that claim because it’s blatantly flawed. CNN, for example, reported: it’s widely […]
A Glossy Socialist Training Pamphlet
Editors’ Note: We are probably not the first to notice that anti-Semitic and pro-terrorist demonstrations abroad tend to be heavily young and male-dominated, but in the US, they are largely female. Perhaps this is because more women are now in college and subject to mandatory indoctrination. But that does not explain it all. Why is […]
How The Trump Trial Harkens Back To A Dark Period In American Law
Author’s note: Below is a slightly expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the verdict in the Trump trial. The Manhattan case, in my view, was a raw exercise of political manipulation of the criminal justice system. It is only the latest example of the use of the justice system for […]
Driver Shortage? Not So Fast
Something most people don’t think about when they see an 18-wheeler rolling down the road? Corporate welfare. Something many people do think about when they see that 18-wheeler, especially when following one down the interstate and staring at the ubiquitous ads that indicate that many companies are hiring, is the “truck driver shortage.” You’ve all seen them […]
Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto Suggests an Inconvenient Aspect of ‘Gender-Affirming Care
The vast majority of mass shooters are male, and male biochemistry helps to explain why. Yet the person who opened fire at Nashville’s Covenant School was biologically female. Higher amounts of the hormone testosterone give men larger muscles, more significant skeletal muscle, and a higher percentage of red blood cells. Testosterone also tends to give men unwarranted self-confidence and […]
Self-Flagellation and the Great Liberal Death Wish
This crisis is nothing new. From Sydney to London to untold numbers of American college campuses, we hear incendiary cries for destroying the Jewish state, for a new Jihad or Holy War, all in the name of an ostensibly noble and just “anti-colonialist” struggle. Tens of thousands march in major European cities, and with frenzied […]
A Nobel for a Student of Civilization
The 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (colloquially referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics) was awarded to economist Claudia Goldin. To preface this article, I don’t believe there should be a Nobel Prize in economics, as I’ve pointed out before. My reasoning on this is in line […]
Dems’ Senate Hopes Just Got Completely Dashed
Senate Democrats’ hopes to hold its narrow majority in the upper chamber likely just got crushed by West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s Thursday announcement not to seek reelection in 2024. Manchin’s decision opens the door for Republicans to flip the seat red with West Virginia GOP Gov. Jim Justice expected to win the party’s nomination and no viable […]