728 x 90



Latest Posts

Top Authors

  • Rose Wilder Lane: Pioneer of Educational Freedom

    Rose Wilder Lane: Pioneer of Educational Freedom0

    My eight-year-old daughter Abby recently started reading Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. It was prompted, in part, by watching the Little House on the Prairie television episodes with her great-aunt. Coincidentally, I have been reading more lately about some of the key women in history who promoted the ideals of

    READ MORE
  • Rose Wilder Lane Explains Why Anti-Semitism Threatens Freedom

    Rose Wilder Lane Explains Why Anti-Semitism Threatens Freedom0

    On college campuses, among celebrities, and among socialist politicians, anti-Semitism is in vogue. Rose Wilder Lane would tell you it is no accident that freedom is simultaneously in retreat. Rose Wilder Lane, the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, was a famed journalist who helped to ghostwrite her mother’s Little House on the Prairie books. In

    READ MORE
  • Roots of Our Insecurities

    Roots of Our Insecurities0

    The news regularly alerts us to allegedly rising rates of depression and anxiety for modern Americans. What we don’t often see is a general discussion about what could cause those issues in a world in which everything is supposedly getting better. Think about it: our grocery stores are full, we have air conditioning and heat

    READ MORE
  • Ronald Reagan Challenged Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to ‘Tear Down’ the Berlin Wall 31 Years Ago

    Ronald Reagan Challenged Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to ‘Tear Down’ the Berlin Wall 31 Years Ago0

    On this day (June 12) President Ronald Reagan gave what is probably his most famous and influential speech — the “Berlin Wall speech” — at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, Germany on June 12, 1987. It was in this speech (at about 12:00 in the video below) that Reagan made his famous and history-changing

    READ MORE
  • Rome Burned and Nero Lost His Empire – What Will Happen to Europe this Century?

    Rome Burned and Nero Lost His Empire – What Will Happen to Europe this Century?0

    You have doubtless heard the well-worn euphemism that Rome’s emperor at the time, the decadent and unpopular Nero, “fiddled while Rome burned.” The expression of course has a double meaning: Not only did Nero stroke his violin making music while his people suffered, but he was an ineffectual leader in a time of deepening crisis. Europe is burning again, today. Literally and

    READ MORE
  • Rome and the Decline and Fall … of Bureaucracy?

    Rome and the Decline and Fall … of Bureaucracy?0

    We have all heard the comparison between the fall of Rome and the current state of decline in America. The comparison is often repeated, and its warning should not be forgotten. One writer who states this clearly is the historian Thomas Cahill. Writing on Roman decline in the book How the Irish Saved Civilization, Cahill

    READ MORE