Leviathan and Its Enemies is a book about power: who has it, how they got it, how they keep it, and whether it can be taken from them.

  Today we are giving our take on the Biden administration’s announcement that it will be raising tariffs on a host of Chinese-made products. Given they are calling for a 100% tariff on electric vehicles, we ...

  On August 24th, the Department of Justice announced it was suing Elon Musk’s "Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) for discriminating against asylees and refugees in its hiring practices." The news took ...

Given the numerous attempts to pack immigration provisions into current spending bills, there’s probably no better time to talk about the real meaning of the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty has long been a ...

I had the pleasure to sit down with James Howard Kunstler, author of such notable books as the geography of Nowhere, The Long Emergency, the fictional World Made By Hand Series, and my personal favorite, Too Much Magic, Wishful thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation. The intention was to talk specifically about Syria ...

America is in a new “gilded age”, only without the mass child labor. We are still riddled with mass wealth inequality, neglected social institutions, and a government run by tycoons and villains. The crackdown on unions and labor movements of the past decades has yielded no fruit for America’s working class, and for too long ...

President Trump’s new budget proposal, released February 12, includes measures to end federal funding for PBS and National Public Radio, as well as the elimination of vital student loan programs. It would also replace the SNAP program with “foods packages.” Trump’s plan would also demand major cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. I didn’t think I’d have ...

Those of us who live in California and oppose illegal immigration are often met with the bromide that illegal aliens plant and harvest our food, and that without them, the nation would starve. We are told illegal aliens are the backbone of California agriculture. It has been true that Mexican born labor has been at ...

Progressives have always moved society forward, for better or worse. It has always been the label of political pioneers: Abraham Lincoln, Lyndon Johnson, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt to be politically progressive – though they were from different political parties – one for his abolition of slavery, another for granting African Americans the right to vote, ...