Public-School Zoombies
Jeremy Adams teaches civic classes at Bakersfield High School in California. In a July 24 commentary in the Los Angeles Times entitled “The Rise of the Zoombies: Lifeless, Detached Students …
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JFK’s Peace Speech
Pat Buchanan has just published an article on President Kennedy’s Peace Speech at American University on June 10, 1963, just a few months before he was assassinated on November 22. …
Still Divided, Enslaved & Locked Down
A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not …
The Chimera of Immigration Reform
A commentary in the New York Times today provides a perfect demonstration of the problem facing the American people regarding immigration. The title of the commentary is “Why Rural America …
The LA Times Gets It Wrong on Gun Rights
The Los Angeles Times had an editorial yesterday whose title pretty much says it all: “18-Year-Olds Shouldn’t Have the Right to Buy Guns.” So, let me see if I correctly …
Under Biden Free Enterprise Means Government Control
George Orwell famously coined the term “newspeak” in his 1949 anti-utopian futuristic novel, 1984, in which commonsense words were reversed in their meaning. Thus, “peace” meant “war,” and “love” meant …
Frank Chodorov’s Peaceful, Persistent Revolution, Part 1
Part 1 | Part 2 [to be published] It is easy to imagine the libertarian icon Murray Rothbard (1926–1995) modeling himself on his mentor, the Old Right icon Frank A. …
The Danger of Drug-War Raids
We are all familiar with drug-war raids, especially in the middle of the night, in which cops and DEA agents sometimes shoot and kill people and their pets during the …
James Woolsey’s JFK Conspiracy Theory, Part 1
Part 1 | Part 2 [to be published] Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey has written a newly published book entitled Operation Dragon, which poses one of the silliest conspiracy …
Cuban-Americans Love Socialism Too
Cuban-Americans are ecstatic over the protests erupting in Cuba against socialism. What nonsense! With the notable exception of Cuban-American libertarians, many Cuban-Americans are no more against socialism than the average …