The militarization of American cities by ICE is being addressed, or not addressed, around constitutional, moral, and practical questions familiar to Americans from sixty years of debates over “law and order.” Does ICE’s deployment follow the law? What kind of...
Late last year I wrote an article for this website titled “What Has the Government Done to Our Cars” decrying the way decades of excessive regulations have changed America’s automobiles for the worse. Now, just months later, in what EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is...
As we continue to learn more about the Epstein Files, including the gruesome details, due in large part to the valiant leadership of Congressmen Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA), we are also beginning to hear more names that are mentioned in the documents. We...
Mass deportations poll well, in part because many Americans believe immigrants should “get in line” and follow the law. However, the core issue isn't a nation's right to enforce its borders. When people are willing to overlook constitutional violations to “solve the...
The United States finds itself in an unfamiliar position. After spending approximately one hundred and fifty THAAD interceptors and eighty SM-3 missiles to help defend Israel during the Twelve-Day War in June 2025, the Pentagon faces a stark reality. Its stockpiles...
Immigration debates in the United States tend to follow a familiar pattern. A controversial enforcement action occurs. Critics condemn the tactics of immigration agencies. Defenders respond that officers are merely enforcing the law as written. The discussion quickly...
The people performing those mind-boggling contortions to justify, on libertarian grounds, state violence against migrants without papers—restrictatarians, I call them—cite a 1994 article by Murray Rothbard (1926-1995) in support of their double-jointed acrobatics....
A few presidencies ago, Washington politicians used boundless political and intellectual chicanery to drag America into a ruinous war. Thousands of Americans died and scores of thousands of Iraqis perished due to the official myth of Saddam Hussein as the twentieth...
William J. Watkins Jr.’s The Independent Guide to the Constitution: Original Intentions, Modern Inventions is an admirably clear-eyed and disciplined examination of a document that has, over the course of two centuries, been transformed from a charter of limited and...
On the evening of Tuesday, January 13, 2026, ten days after the Donald Trump administration’s kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, The Wall Street Journal ran an exclusive report asserting that “the support of the Venezuelan opposition led by Maria...
The president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, has arrived in Australia. Herzog’s visit is a gesture of unified narrative, an about-face by the Australian government after its recognition of Palestine and a return to an endorsement of Israels colonialism and genocide. While...
When Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in 2025, its supporters promised something approaching accountability. The bill, championed by Representatives Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA), ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release all...
Public discussion of the Epstein files has largely centered on individual misconduct and reputational fallout. That emphasis risks overlooking the more consequential question raised by the Justice Department’s response to the disclosure mandate. The episode is less...
The camera crews assembled at the Justice Department in March 2024 to capture what prosecutors described as a landmark conviction. Juan Orlando Hernández, who had served as Honduras's president from 2014 to 2022, stood convicted of conspiring to import over four...
The Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada is in many respects a fairly typical business school. It offers degrees in management, leadership, economics, and so on, and its faculty members are regularly published...
The problem of survival is never "solved," once and for all, with no further thought or motion required. More precisely, the problem of survival is solved, by recognizing that survival demands constant growth and creativeness.... Capitalism, by its nature, entails a...
In the halls of the U.S. Capitol, where lawmakers craft policies that shape the nation's economy, a persistent ethical dilemma looms: the ability of members of Congress to trade stocks while possessing privileged, non-public information. This practice raises serious...
Between January 27 and January 29, 2026, something carefully orchestrated unfolded across Western capitals. Within this forty-eight hour window, the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier group arrived in the Persian Gulf, President Donald Trump declared "time is running out,"...
