As is customary in the days leading up to an election, the campaign rhetoric is getting heated. Here in western Pennsylvania, Democrats have gained points in the polls by adopting an aggressively protectionist ad campaign. Democratic candidates for the House … Continue reading
Karl Marx once commented that voters’ choices in a democracy constituted little more than deciding which bourgeois party would oppress them the most. The old misanthrope’s views on such matters are usually worth ignoring, but he had a point with … Continue reading
To read a description of this book event and view a streaming video of the Heritage Foundation lecture, please click on the link below: “Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century”
To view a streaming video of this National Press Club lecture in Washington, D.C., please click on the links below: “Dupes and Why Communism Still Matters” (Part 1) “Dupes and Why Communism Still Matters” (Part 2) “Dupes and Why Communism … Continue reading
You’ve probably seen the headlines about major banks suspending foreclosure proceedings to reclaim houses from borrowers who have defaulted on their mortgages. This has the potential to be hugely disruptive—a milestone development comparable to the failure of Lehman Brothers in … Continue reading
To view a streaming video of this event from the Freedom Readers Lecture Series, please click on the link below: “Cows, Communists and Cell Phones: An economics lecture most students will never hear” For MAC users: If you experience difficulty playing … Continue reading
Written by the administrative director of The Center for Vision & Values for WORLD Magazine. Read the article.
Today, October 15, the dynamite documentary, “I Want Your Money,” opens at theaters nationwide. The release of this film so close to the midterm elections on November 2 is no coincidence. “IWYM” is a cry of the heart from its … Continue reading
A few days ago, I received an email from the daughter of our congresswoman—a mass email, of course. She explained that because of healthcare reform, which her mother supported, she no longer had to pay a $25 copayment for each … Continue reading
The Tea Party Movement, otherwise known as the Great Peasant Revolt of 2010, has been greeted by the country’s ruling class with all the sympathy that Voltaire expressed toward the Catholic Church: “Kill the infamous thing!” Although the American Revolution … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: “On the broadest level, Dr. Ritenour and I are both interested in the relationship between social conditions and human action. We are both advocates of free markets, believing that they contribute more to human thriving than other arrangements. We … Continue reading
Last week, 13 Republicans released a “Pledge to America.” What is most surprising to me is its length. At 21 pages, it was many times the length of the GOP’s hugely successful 1994 “Contract with America.” Why ditch a winning … Continue reading
Written by the administrative director of The Center for Vision & Values for WORLD Magazine. Read the article.
On September 21, the Executive Director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College, Dr. Paul Kengor, discussed his most recent book—“Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century”—on “Between the Covers,” with National Review … Continue reading
It has been almost 50 years since Milton Friedman, Nobel economist, released his classic, Capitalism and Freedom. The book has slowly slipped from my course syllabus, not to mention that of the political elite. And why not? What Friedman said … Continue reading
Washington’s stunning economic power grabs—healthcare centralization, Keynesian fiscal stimulus, and Federal Reserve bailouts—are creating an unintended consequence: an increasing demand for freedom literature. Exhibit A would have to be F.A. Hayek’s 66-year-old Road to Serfdom’s recently hitting number one for … Continue reading
Guest Commentary Editor’s note: This article first appeared through the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a research and educational institute headquartered in Midland, Mich. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is hereby granted, provided that the author and the Center … Continue reading
Editor’s note: A lengthier version of this article first appeared in The American Spectator. It was 35 years ago that the conservative movement found itself in a defining moral struggle not with the liberal Left but with the establishment wing … Continue reading
Written by the administrative director of The Center for Vision & Values for WORLD Magazine. Read the article.
Written by the administrative director of The Center for Vision & Values for WORLD Magazine. Read the article.
