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The Scourge

The cordlike implement known as a "whip" has existed for millenia. Whips were first designed as a means of compelling draft animals to comply with their human owners. A whip, usually made of vegetable fibers or leather, is not designed to harm the animal, but to make it easier to ...

Collusion and Corruption at the IRS

They say there are only two sure things in life: death and taxes. Try as we might, it's virtually impossible to escape the clutches of the Grim Reaper or the Tax Man. Both will get you eventually. And as anyone who has been through an IRS audit or suffered a tax ...

Are Progressive Policies Making Income Inequality Increase?

Left leaning politicians allege that conservative policies favor wealthy Americans. They cite growing income inequality, the observation that the rich are getting richer while the majority of Americans are falling behind, as a reason to enact new legislation that attempts to redistribute wealth in the name of fairness. In the ...

Crony Capitalism Protects Wrongdoers, Harms Consumers, and Disrupts Markets

Thanks to a renewed interest in the works of Ayn Rand and high-profile figures like John Stossel, Glenn Beck, and Rand Paul, libertarianism is enjoying a moment in the political sun. And just like America's two major parties, libertarians can often be blind to faulty logic and flaws within their ...

Want to Know How Washington Really Works? Just Follow the Money

"You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading The Land of the Free in history books. Then they get to be men they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books . . . . Men should hold it up in front ...

Making Sense of the Senseless

"An individual is not just the product of the forces around him. He has a mind, an inner world. Then having thought, a person can bring forth actions into the external world and thus influence it. People are apt to look at the outer theater of action, forgetting the actor ...

The Off-Track EPA

In his book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey declared that “... all people see the world, not as it is, but as they are.” I. F. Stone wrote, “All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.” Every time you pull in to fill ...

An Abortion Ghoul’s Chamber of Horrors

Last week, I wrote a column entitled "Brutality in the Brave New World" discussing an appalling movement within the scientific community in which researchers are exploring the "therapeutic" potential of the eggs of aborted baby girls. In a similar vein, a bioethicist writing for the Huffington Post in 2009 famously ...

The Resurrection of Christ: The Restoration of Humanity and Creation

This article first appeared in The Geneva School's Tolle Lege. The Geneva School is a Christian classical school founded in 1993 for grades K4-12 and is located in Winter Park, Florida. [H]e alone has made solid progress in the gospel who has acquired the habit of meditating continually on a blessed ...

Brutality in the Brave New World

In his seminal work, Nichomachean Ethics, the philosopher Aristotle begins his meditation on the subject of morality and the ultimate end of human life with an observation that certain first principles of ethics are self-evident to a person who has been raised up in a virtuous manner. A good man ...

Ideas in Action

Crony Capitalism Protects Wrongdoers, Harms Consumers, and Disrupts Markets

Ken Connor

Thanks to a renewed interest in the works of Ayn Rand and high-profile figures like John Stossel, Glenn Beck, and Rand Paul, libertarianism is enjoying ...