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Government is a requirement for the development and maintenance of civilization. A civilized society cannot develop without a government that can keep a reasonable level of order by providing and enforcing a legal system and providing for the common defense. Two of the most crucial characteristics of government are, 1) what does government see as...…

“Everything lives or dies by politics because of its capacity when benign to allow all around it to flourish and when malign to make all around it wither.”  Krauthammer’s observation applies so appropriately to socialism because socialism is malign. It is malign because it relies on envy (the most dangerous of the social passions) for...…

People so often fail to realize why free-market capitalism is so much more productive than any system where economic decisions are made by top down decisions by the government. When the government makes all the decisions for any type of economic activity it does so in a monopolistic setting. Decisions made in a monopolistic framework...…

Americans are inclined to believe that democracy will solve any country’s problems. Democracy is fragile and if we are to continue to lead the world in our quality of government we need to understand how best to protect the institutions and traditions that have made democracy so successful in America. Democracy has only worked well...…

Recently Progressives have managed to combine so many narrowly focused and diverse self-interested groups that they are on the cusp of achieving a working majority. What’s new is that government’s role in social policy and transfers has grown so large that a great many people who formerly took little interest in public affairs are now...…

Progressives believe that government run by experts should have a larger role in the economy and in running our lives than has historically been the case in free market economies. They believe government planners are altruistically motivated and can run an economy more successfully than a lightly regulated free market.  Progressives appear to put more...…

One of the most corrupting influences of current elite culture is its success in popularizing a set of beliefs it defines as politically correct and in demonizing views that challenge those beliefs.  Political Correctness (PC) is both political propaganda and a belief system. Its use for political control in totalitarian systems is obvious, but how...…

Most advanced social democracies cannot defend themselves because voters have become so addicted to government benefits that when politicians are faced with the challenge of reducing military spending or transfer payments, they will always reduce military spending.  The social democracies of Western Europe have largely abdicated responsibility for their defense and would not exist in...…