The horrors of Sept. 11, 2001, inspired my son, Private Heath Warner, to fight for freedom. “I am going to fight them over there, so you do not have to fight them here,” he said. Heath paid the ultimate sacrifice, as he was killed in action on Nov. 22, 2006, in Iraq. At the time,...
Since the start of the coronavirus crisis, advocates of greater government planning and redistribution have used “following the science” as the rhetorical cover to rationalize the growth in political paternalism. Now, however, some of them are coming out of the closet and insisting that economists, for example, must explicitly adopt an authoritarian ethic that requires...
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The political paternalists and the social engineers are giddy with hope and anticipation. They are confident that their day has, once again, arrived. The era of even bigger government has returned, and any remaining free-market system is simply out of date. They are full of promises and plans to set the world right, as long...
Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Bartholet has been a major opponent of homeschool education in recent years. But do her claims withstand scrutiny? Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Bartholet has been a major opponent of homeschool education in recent years. In an interview with the Harvard Gazette last year, Bartholet outlandishly claimed that homeschooling is a threat...
NOTE: A version of this essay was published in the November 2021 edition of When Free To Choose. Merely raising the debt limit one more time will not solve America’s fiscal crisis. Congress has repeatedly demonstrated that it does not perceive the debt limit as a binding constraint on its spending. Every time the accumulated...
Remembering the past; celebrating the present The Emancipation Proclamation was signed Sept. 22, 1862, and documents officially ending the U.S. Civil War were signed on April 9, 1865. Still, racism and prejudice persisted for over 100 years with separate restaurants, restrooms, drinking fountains and schools for Blacks. Tragic events marred history, including the Tulsa race...
When Emmy-award-winning broadcaster, Jim Nantz and super sports agent, Leigh Steinberg, write an endorsement of your book, people take notice. “THE WINNING GAME PLAN: A Proven Leadership Playbook for Continuous Business Success,” by Jamey Rootes, not only has Nantz and Steinberg’s endorsement, but those of many other luminaries in the sports and business world. Read...
Each and every one of us knows lack. We hunger for bread, crave love, lack meaning. Lack leaves us restless, raging against the world and ourselves. But despite its familiarity, lack remains a mystery. Why do we encounter it everywhere? Where does it come from? Is there a common denominator – a universal, yet unexplored...