The world can be a harsh place. People die every second of every minute of the day, many in unjust, unfair, and senseless ways. The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 and beyond has particularly stricken the elderly and those already immunocompromised….

The Libertarian Party (LP) has been around since 1971, and over the course of 49 years the best that any of its candidates for president ever did was to win only 3 percent of the electorate. I used to rationalize…

What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley  By Adrian Daub (FSG Originals, 160 pages, $13.50) Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron’s iconoclastic 1995 essay “The Californian Ideology” was the first stab at an intellectual history…

There I was, at age 33, reading Atlas Shrugged. I was just being introduced to Ayn Rand, had just finished We the Living. As I am reading, a character describes Robin Hood as the pure embodiment of evil. That attack…

Preface: A Stream of Consciousness on Media Bias, Mass Brainwashing of College Kids and American Voters, and Cancel Culture Only one more day of truth left for prime-time television, and then we will have to wait four more years. In…

Small-government groups that applied for and accepted Payroll Protection Program (PPP) loans were blasted in the press Monday night as hypocrites. Reuters, Forbes, Slate, and others criticized  the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) and Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) and other…

Background In 1985 my family moved to Israel for two years, playing our part in reclaiming a heretofore unclaimed portion of our Biblical patrimony. So, with 35 other young families, we co-founded the new community of Neve Aliza in Ginot…

“Who is John Galt?” is a question that resonates throughout the ideological echo chamber of the Right. It’s a sort of mantra that dominates the underlying economic assumptions of everyone from Libertarian activists, like the Koch Brothers, to the corporate…