May Meta Really Be Turning Away from Censorship?

On Saturday I wrote advising that people should be cautious about expecting the promotion of Joel Kaplan at Meta means the company will end, or even make a big reduction in, its censorship at its social media sites of Facebook and Instagram. I stand by my analysis in...

Can Biden Prevent Trump From Drilling For Oil?

Citing fears of “climate change,” outgoing president Joe Biden has pre-empted incoming President Trump’s stated goal of increasing oil and gas production to help solve our economic problems. Should a lame duck president be able to tie a newly-elected president’s...

Don’t Pardon Michael Byrd. Indict Him Instead.

The Washington, D.C., establishment is, needless to say, up in arms over President-elect Trump’s plans to pardon the protestors who stormed the Capitol on January 6 four years ago. After hundreds of criminal prosecutions and sometimes long jail sentences meted out by...

Nosferatu in the Wake of the Covid Experience

Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula (1892) was written as a Victorian-style moralizing tale of sin and its consequences. The author, a political and religious conservative of his times, never could have imagined that his novel would become a bestseller in his own time...

‘Insurrection’ Day?

For four years the mainstream media and the Democratic Party (along with some Republicans) have pushed the narrative that on Jan. 6th, 2021, a coup d’etat was attempted against “our democracy.” The narrative has empowered the state to jail scores of Americans without...

D.O.G.E.: End The Global Engagement Center!

In the book Crisis and Leviathan, libertarian thinker Robert Higgs pointed out that the state uses crises to ratchet up its power and control over citizens. With each new “crisis” – often directly or indirectly caused by the state itself – government grows and our...