I don’t remember when I realized that I would fail at my life’s mission. I finally recognized that the federal government will still be operating after I am gone. Special interest Cabinet departments such as Commerce, Energy, Housing and Urban…
The arts have rarely been kind to commercial activity, and visual media are no exception. Businesspeople are typically depicted as venal and immoral, and even when not playing the villain their line of work is usually at best incidental to…
“Western civilization under its capitalist economic order has produced a worldwide cornucopia of consumer goods and a remarkable improvement in human health,” writes Donald Devine in The Enduring Tension: Capitalism and the Moral Order. “But few among the beneficiaries are…
Most of us love the idea of a snow-filled white Christmas, but secretly dread the accompanying blizzard of commentary about how we ruin the season by giving in to commercialism. Focusing on gifts and glitter, we are told, is shallow,…
Under Pope Francis, the Vatican has become almost an annex of the United Nations, serving as a tribune for its propaganda. Not a week passes, it seems, without some new papal endorsement of its schemes, most of which have been…
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…
Mirabile dictu! It is rare for free-market advocates to find themselves in agreement with Pope Francis. He is, more often than not, against those very things that make free markets possible: private property, competition, and capital accumulation. Instead, the pope…
What Am I To Do? For over a decade, I signed the front of the check. Started a company with just me; it grew to 12 full and part-time employees. I was prepared for virtually any contingency. My crystal ball…
Nearly every graduation speaker tells the graduates that they are going to change the country profoundly and irrevocably. Don’t worry, you won’t. For the most part, that’s a good thing. While America is not without its policies that cry for…
