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If you subscribe to Netflix and care about the future of human liberty, I urge you right now to search and find the documentary called The Pursuit, newly on the lineup of this subscription service.

Earlier this year, Pope Francis again blasted capitalism as “a fallacious economic model that has been followed for too long.”

It is never possible to know beforehand or with full certainty whether right ideas will win out in a particular place and at any particular time.

Promises, promises, promises. It is the season for political promises.

If you look at the results of relatively open and competitive market economies over the years, the only conclusion that can reasonably be reached is that free market liberal-oriented societies provide the conditions for constant betterment.

The number one problem of all public debate about politics and economics is the failure to name the state. If this would change, so would public opinion.

To solve a problem, one must first diagnose its cause. This rings true in all walks of life. Yet this fundamental principle seems to be ignored when the problems of inner-city crime and poverty are considered.

In the wake of Parkland and several other recent mass shootings, it seems clear that gun control advocates do not understand natural rights and the founding principles of the United States.

U.S. Senator Rand Paul joins the show to discuss President Trump’s pick to replace retiring Anthony Kennedy and the benefits of association health plans.

The recent tragedy at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High has sadly raised this question again. The failure to prevent the loss of young lives reflects both an unpleasant reality and some problems of politics.

Humankind’s propensity to act selfishly is taken to be an important problem in political theory: an impediment, perhaps, to the utopian dreams of political philosophers.

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #113 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Cato Institute, the Illinois Policy Institute, the Washington Policy Center and the Reason Foundation.

American Greatness Managing Editor Ben Boychuk and Heartland’s Jim Lakely recorded a podcast for Independence Day. Ben inspired Jim with his tradition to read the Declaration of Independence at July 4th observances, which he brought to my barbecue years ago.