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Your candidate won. But did you? Elections may change who holds power, while taxes, laws, and policies still apply whether you consent to them or not.

Thomas Sowell spent a lifetime challenging fashionable ideas and resisting intellectual conformity. Now Clifton Duncan is bringing his life and legacy to a new generation onstage.

A $20 burrito is not just about inflation or restaurant markups. Tariffs can raise costs across the wrapper, tomatoes, beef, cheese, and more, one small bite at a time.

What if the people who elected a deficit-running government had to pay extra for it? The idea is absurd. That’s exactly why it works.

Representative democracy gives majorities political power. Markets let everyone vote. Ulrich Fromy argues that voluntary choice offers a more direct form of representation.

Homeowners can be taxed out of their homes. Shouldn’t they get a vote before property taxes go up?

Revolution may resist coercion, but does it justify imposing a new system on others? This essay makes the case for individual secession instead.

California’s Prop 13 made property taxes more predictable, but it also discouraged mobility and shifted more financial power to the state.

Italy did not collapse. It simply stopped moving. Rigid rules, high taxes, slow courts, debt, and demographic decline helped turn economic stability into long-term stagnation.

After years of frustration with Germany’s restrictions and bureaucracy, David Jäkle traveled to Paraguay with three weeks to decide whether moving there made sense. He found affordable food, fast transportation, relatively simple residency paperwork, active construction, and a lighter regulatory environment. His time in Asunción became a firsthand look at the cost of living in Paraguay, everyday life under smaller government, and what it means to choose a different future.

The Dred Scott decision is remembered primarily for its connection to slavery and citizenship, but Wanjiru Njoya argues that another constitutional issue has been overlooked: state sovereignty. By comparing Chief Justice Roger Taney’s majority opinion with Justice Benjamin Curtis’s dissent and later interpretations of the case, the article examines a deeper question about federal power. When states disagree on fundamental legal and moral questions, should federal judges be able to turn one state

Harm reduction has become an easy target in the debate over America’s overdose crisis. But rising deaths in cities with syringe programs, naloxone distribution, supervised consumption sites, or safer-supply policies do not prove those programs caused the crisis. Looking at Seattle, Burlington, Vancouver, and New York, Layal Bou Harfouch argues that each intervention should be judged by the harm it is actually designed to reduce.

Who controls your medical care? A former hospital administrator examines free-market healthcare—and the institutions standing between patient and doctor.

Most small-business owners still rely on savings, family money, or credit cards, while government programs remain costly, rigid, and hard to navigate. AI may give private lenders a better way to spot strong businesses traditional underwriting overlooks.

Consent matters—but it doesn’t settle every moral question. Adults can freely choose things that are reckless, degrading, cruel, or deeply regrettable, and society can still judge those choices without turning every moral failure into a legal offense. The Cornell 7 controversy raises a harder question at the intersection of liberty and responsibility: If consent is necessary for freedom, is it also enough?

A storm forces the Kane family off their usual route, but the detour works out better than expected. In AnCapville, different roads come with different prices, rules, and risks.

“Who will build the roads?” sounds like a knockout objection to life without government. In practice, roads can be owned, priced, maintained, insured, and connected by the same incentives that organize other complex systems.

Solzhenitsyn knew how tempting it is to put evil somewhere else. His harder lesson was that conscience begins by looking at what we are capable of ourselves.

What happens when people are free to choose, leave, combine, or build their own systems of governance? This visual map lays out the possibilities—from households and communities to networks, agencies, and entirely new forms of political order.

Pullman porters worked punishing hours under segregation, but the job opened doors that were otherwise closed. Their wages, travel, networks, and organizing helped lift families and reshape Black America.