You may be reading this from Alabama. Or Arkansas. Or a quiet corner of Ohio, wondering, “Why should I care what happened in Wausau, Wisconsin?” Here’s why: because Wausau is you. It’s me. It’s America’s Main Street in miniature. And when leftist economic malpractice takes root in small towns, […]

Well, you can’t say that Elon Musk’s last day at the Department of Government Efficiency wasn’t an eventful one. During his exit interview at the White House, Musk showed up to celebrate the end of his tenure at DOGE with a black eye in the Oval Office — which naturally led to questions about where […]

Patience running thin: As spring turns to summer, Russia’s offensive in Ukraine is growing stronger, and Donald Trump is growing frustrated. It’s easy to see why, writes the Hudson Institute’s Mike Watson. The Trump administration, Watson observes, “believed that another attempt to normalize political and economic relations with Russia” and pressuring Ukraine to make a […]

Rothbard introduces Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) in his essay “Herbert Spencer: Andreski & Peel”: Herbert Spencer was a great and protean thinker, a self-taught genius who ranged over and systematically integrated vast realms of human thought: philosophy, politics, sociology, biology, and the other natural sciences. He was also one of the great libertarians in the history […]

With just under 18 months to go before the midterm elections, one might assume that any speculation more than a year out is both fruitless and bound to be wrong. And while predictions and polling at this great distance are almost certainly not worth much, there is definitely value in looking at the gambits involved […]