In her 1943 book-length essay, The Discovery of Freedom, author, Rose Wilder Lane, takes us through thousands of years of history to repeatedly demonstrate that “all men are free.” Despite a few factual errors and a few poorly-chosen words—acknowledged and regretted by the author, herself—it more than amply illustrates her thesis. (For the benefit of […]

For those interested in educational policy, I recommend reading the Cato Policy Report titled, Educational Pluralism and Social Conflict. The report shows how top-down educational planning causes social strife such as that facing the United States today, and provides examples of how other democratic nations have successfully reduced the intensity of this conflict by implementing

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word, “capitalism,” was invented by socialists in 1872 to provide a name for everything they opposed. The word has never been very clearly defined and has become essentially meaningless in current common usage. Both supporters and opponents of capitalism use the word to describe a variety of very

Check out the proposed monetary system recently posted to the Big Ideas section of this site!

I have read of federal employees saying that presidents come and go but they, of the bureaucracy, are the ones who remain and really know what is going on. The first part is unquestionably true, and the second is likely true in most cases. I have also read of federal employees instructing their subordinates to

The Wrath of Gnon posted this on his Tumblr page. It expresses precisely why I started this blog.

Most large businesses conduct a financial audit at least once a year. They also conduct periodic program audits of essential functions. Examples include quality audits, sales audits, production audits, and safety and environmental audits. Every government agency of non-trivial size should be audited on a regular basis to verify that its activities are consistent with

Several candidates for Governor of Texas have promised to use the Texas National Guard to capture and deport people crossing the border illegally from Mexico. Does the governor have the legal authority to do so? Let’s start with some possibly-relevant provisions of the U. S. Constitution. (Emphasis added.) U. S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8The

Up in the sky, look! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman! From 1940 to 1958 millions of Americans tuned in weekly to The Adventures of Superman, a show about an amazing man with superpower. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, our political class and their echos in the media extolled