By Roland Fryer – Probing the incentives and institutions that kept slavery alive can help us value what freedom means. Read More
The Economics of Slavery
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Reflections on Lincoln 160 Years After His Murder
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By Paul Wolfowitz – April 14, 2025 – America’s greatest president had moral vision, strategic genius, and astounding eloquence. Read More
Ed Feulner Built Institutions in Support of American Values
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By Mike Pence – As the founder of the Heritage Foundation, Ed was a leading voice of conservatism for more than 50 years. Under his leadership, Heritage became both a center for scholarship and a powerhouse of strategic influence.
What concerned him, as always, was the long-term health of the American Republic, and the strength of the institutions that would defend it for generations to come.
Ed didn’t just build up institutions; he cultivated a movement that brought ivory tower ideas into the public square and never lost sight of the moral and spiritual foundations of liberty. Read More
‘Follow the Science’ Leads to Ruin
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Over the past two centuries, global life quality has dramatically improved, to a large extent because of an incredible increase in energy, mostly from the harnessing of fossil fuels. That has made agriculture, industry and transportation vastly more productive. Average life spans have more than doubled, hunger has dramatically declined, and real income has increased tenfold. We risk all that progress if we just stop using fossil fuels.
The world still gets four-fifths of its energy from fossil fuels, because renewable sources rarely provide good alternatives. Half the world’s population entirely depends on food grown with synthetic fertilizer produced almost entirely by natural gas. If we rapidly ceased using fossil fuels, four billion people would suddenly be without food. Read More
Henry Kissinger on Power and Morality AA
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By Walter Russell Meade – Kissinger understood something that too many Americans, on the left and right, find difficult to grasp: Power and morality aren’t opposites. Rather, power is the platform that makes moral action possible for a state. And morality isn’t a set of rules and laws that states are expected to obey. Rather, in international relations, morality involves creating an order that prevents the anarchy and slaughter of great-power warfare. Such an order gains legitimacy not by its perfect adherence to a religious or secular moral code, but by its ability to preserve values and conditions that allow civilizations, and the human beings who inhabit them, to flourish. Read More