When I was in graduate school in 1993, a colleague confessed gleefully during a class discussion, “When I heard that Ronald Reagan had been shot, I cheered.” Others in class nodded and chuckled in agreement, certain that we all shared the same political views. We were all in academia, right? I felt shocked and offended…

The third week of October marks the anniversary of a great human achievement. On October 21, 1879, Thomas Edison ran an electric current through an experimental light bulb. He had tried thousands of filaments in other bulbs in the past. While none worked, he considered them successes in that they limited the possibilities of what…

Police brutality, reform, and defunding became very hot topics this past summer as politicians began deliberating on the types of new laws and regulations to enact to fix this problem. From a law and order perspective, it’s hard to fathom that some politicians are advocating the dissolution or defunding of one of the most vital…

The year 2020 has been anything but a year of seeing clearly. It has been characterized by uncertainty, divisiveness, and conflicting views. In the January prediction issue of my newsletter, “Forecasts & Strategies,” I stated, “The outlook for stocks, gold and the dollar is positive as we enter 2020, but beware of a ‘black swan’…

Humans are resilient, adaptive and resourceful. When an obstacle is placed in our way, we remove it or circumvent it. When we lose something, we devise a substitute. When a door closes, we begin looking for a new opening. We’ve seen examples of this innovation and resilience throughout the pandemic lockdown. Manufacturers adapted their factories…

We need to start thinking bigger. Much bigger. The world has presented us with the best opportunity we have ever had to advance the causes of freedom, peace and civility. People are growing increasingly weary of the status quo and the endless struggle of groups wanting to coerce each other towards often worthy goals. They…

Many of us fail to see the largest problems in life, especially when they are up close and in our face. While this is hard to believe, history shows us that this is simply the case time and time again. The old saying that, “The shoemaker’s kids go barefoot” could not be truer for most…

The Capital Research Center is excited to attend our third FreedomFest! Through our Dangerous Documentaries film brand, we’ll be screening four of our films at the Anthem Film Festival and participating in 6 panels. We hope you can join us! And please visit us in booth # 406. Tuesday, July 14th, 3pm – Anthem/Milano –…

FreedomWorks The way that 2020 has gone so far (we’re less than halfway through, believe it or not), it’s easy to forget that we have fewer than 150 days remaining until our next national election. The stakes surrounding election security could scarcely be higher. Gallup polling continues to show that a majority of Americans polled…

Long before the days of the Virus Lock Down Quarantines and our current Socialist Revolution, economists spent almost 150 years attempting to understand, explain, and navigate what is commonly known today as the Business Cycle. The concepts of inflation and deflation are widely used among all disciplines of economic thought, including the Austrians, Monetarists, Keynesians,…

Everywhere we look for what seems like forever (has it really been only a couple of months??) we’re bombarded with the new words and phrases endlessly repeated in media and politics and subsequently adopted by the masses. “In this unprecedented time…” “Social distance…” “Stay Home, Stay Safe…” “Alone together…” And in my opinion, the worst—“New…

To all lovers of liberty, This letter is a call to action. These are the times that try men’s souls. Today you must ask yourself: Are we still the land of the free and the home of the brave, or are we a conquered nation controlled by opportunistic politicians and slanted journalists? Do we want…

Sean W. Malone I’ve never called COVID-19 a “hoax” or thought that it was “just the flu.” I criticized the Erickson video, and I didn’t bother to watch Plandemic. But I’ve been publicly skeptical of most dire coronavirus predictions since the beginning. I’m also extremely concerned about panic-based policy overreactions. This has put me at…

My mom and dad just celebrated their 68th wedding anniversary last Sunday, May 3. They are healthy and happy at 92 and 88 (almost 89) and when my husband and I decided to drive halfway across the country to join them for this momentous day, they welcomed us with open arms. They didn’t hesitate one…

Go to the beaches… Mingle with friends… Get back to work. In the long run, this is best for everyone. If you’re like me, you’re going on Facebook and seeing a lot of people urging others to stay home. Some posts are quite angry. There is a growing fury against the protestors who want to…

At least 33 states have ordered or recommended that government schools stay shut down through the end of the year. This sweeping decision, like others in the Great Coronavirus Suspension, will cause problems seen and unseen. Many grandparents, for instance, will become childcare providers of last resort, exposing a very vulnerable population to the threat…

If you have any presence on social media at all, you have surely seen Kitty O’Meara’s sentimental prose poem “And the People Stayed Home,” which has circled the globe faster than a corona virus in the past couple of weeks. O’Meara says that she had been feeling sad and anxious about the pandemic and the…

Just in time for our mass incarceration – I mean, our leisurely sheltering at home — Amazon Prime has released its award-winning documentary about a killing scourge that invaded China. No, this is not the scourge currently circling the globe and leading to draconian measures to eradicate it, but China’s draconian population control that upended…

Most wannabe moral philosophers know the “trolley problem” or, to be more accurate, the class of trolley problems, which seek to reveal whether you’d take a deliberate, positive action that you know will harm someone in order to reduce harm to others. The purpose of these thought experiments is to shed light on morality and…

Originally published in The New York Post, 3/31/18 By Lenore Skenazy Utah just became the first state in America to pass the so-called “Free-Range Parenting” bill, named for the movement I founded. It declares that parents can’t be arrested for negligence just because they let their kids play outside, walk to school or wait briefly in…

It starts with a kid holding a sign by the side of the road. It’s also about timing. I’m driving through a small town. My car is plastered with bugs and I see the kid with the sign – “Car Wash”. Right behind him is another sign – “Rummage Sale”. I immediate know what’s going on…