individual liberty

Since Republicans failed to repeal and replace Obamacare when they had the chance in 2017, many have, rather wisely, decided to shift the battleground to the states.

Few things are as clear as the bankruptcy of the political “left.”

Scotland would seem a strange place for the emergence of center of intellectual development that would influence the stream of ideas throughout the world. Scotland had been unified with England near the beginning of the eighteenth century. It was considered a “backwater” of European civilization.

The daily and unending bombardment of political campaign reporting and news, with its “drama” about who will be the Republican and Democratic Party candidates for the U.S. presidency, hides from view the continuing and real choice facing the American public: freedom or statism, individual liberty or government control.

From long before the rise of Mao’s communism — and to this day — Shanghai remains a commercial and industrial center built on the principles of laissez-faire capitalism.

So often do avid boosters such as U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush extol the national standards for K-12 education as “rigorous,” it would be easy to conclude the adjective had become part of the name: The Rigorous Common Core State Standards.

[First posted at The American Spectator.] Whether Left, Right, Independent, or Confused, no one who is not bought and paid for as part of the Obama political machine is going…

[First posted at The American Culture.] Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act vividly highlights a basic cultural division in the contemporary United States. One might well call it…

Heartland’s Director of Research Sam Karnick, the proprietor of the excellent The American Culture blog, expands there on the public comment he offered on our behalf. Sam offered today at…