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# Capitalism Magazine

> Capitalism is the social system based on individual rights


## Posts

- [No Excuse for Fraud in Minnesota](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2026/01/no-excuse-for-fraud-in-minnesota/): Combine an incompatible culture with socialist leadership in our government, and fraud is the result.
- [Breaking the Government’s Grip on Medical Debate](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2026/01/breaking-the-governments-grip-on-medical-debate/): The federal government should leave medical and scientific debates to scientists and clinicians.
- [Medicare Spending is the Largest Driver of the US Debt Crisis](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2026/01/medicare-spending-is-the-largest-driver-of-the-us-debt-crisis/): Why We Can’t Grow Our Way Out of the Medicare-Driven Debt Crisis.
- [Justice in Caracas](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2026/01/justice-in-caracas/): Venezuela has a chance at revival. America has removed a security threat. And autocrats everywhere just learned that no palace provides immunity from justice.
- [Venezuela—Indictments, Invasions, and the Constitution's Crumbling Guardrails](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2026/01/venezuela-indictments-invasions-and-the-constitutions-crumbling-guardrails/): Article I commits to Congress—not the president—the power to decide when the United States will initiate hostilities against foreign sovereigns.
- [Books: A Rebel in Eden: The War Between Individualism and Environmentalism](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2026/01/books-a-rebel-in-eden-the-war-between-individualism-and-environmentalism/): A Rebel in Eden: The War Between Individualism and Environmentalism, by Robert Bidinotto, explains the philosophic foundations of the modern political movement, theories that, in some cases, go back centuries.
- [Brussels Bets the Farm](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2026/01/brussels-bets-the-farm/): If the EU wishes to be honest about the concept of free markets and preserve its agricultural base, it must reduce the environmental, administrative, and social burdens imposed on its own farmers.
- [The Inherent Contradiction of "State Capitalism"](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2026/01/the-inherent-contradiction-of-state-capitalism/): Regardless of the evidence of “state capitalism” not working, many still consider the combination of statism and capitalism – the mixed economy – the ideal system, “the best of both worlds.”
- [A Cascade of Fraud Scandals in Minnesota](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2026/01/a-cascade-of-fraud-scandals-in-minnesota/): What do all the Minnesota programs in the news have in common? They are all mainly funded by the federal government and administered by the state.
- [Why Do New Year's Resolutions Typically Fail?](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2026/01/why-do-new-years-resolutions-typically-fail/): If you want your New Year's resolutions to be completed, take the steps needed to really commit to it.
- [The Meaning of New Year's Resolutions](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2026/01/the-meaning-of-new-years-resolutions/): The solution to failed New Year's resolutions is not to abandon the practice, but to supplement it with a broader resolution--a commitment to a goal-directed life.
- [Happy New Year. Happy Life.](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2026/01/happy-new-year-happy-life/): Your life is in your own hands.
- [Capitalism Works For People, If The Government Would Let It](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/12/capitalism-works-for-people-if-the-government-would-let-it/): Peter Thiel has it wrong. We don’t have capitalism but a statist mixed economy where statism is, and has been, the cause of the economic struggles of the Millennials.
- [The Arson of Excellence: The California Wealth Tax](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/12/the-arson-of-excellence-the-california-wealth-tax/): The motivation of the California Wealth tax is darkly malevolent. This isn't even a normal looting. It’s intended to destroy.
- [Heritage Doesn’t Make Somebody an American](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/12/heritage-doesnt-make-somebody-an-american/): If seriously embraced, a blood and dirt conception of Americanness would destroy one of the most essential elements that make this country so successful and perhaps even its existence.
- [Christmas is About Enjoying Values Not Sacrificing Them](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/12/christmas-is-about-enjoying-values-not-sacrificing-them/): Those who feel guilt over material wealth and blame business for commercializing Christmas through ‘greedy’ profit seeking should pause and ask: “What is the standard of value by which we condemn material wealth and business?”
- [The “Heritage American” Myth](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/12/the-heritage-american-myth/): Descendants of founders are heirs; newcomers are employees. Both contribute, but only heirs embody the founder's vision. Every nation has a core ethnic group—France has the French, Japan the Japanese. Why shouldn't America acknowledge its Anglo-Protestant core? It's a reasonable-sounding argument. It's also completely wrong.
- [When Veterans Betray the Chain of Command](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/12/when-veterans-betray-the-chain-of-command/): The chain of command isn't just military protocol—it's the constitutional architecture that keeps American democracy from sliding into chaos. Six Democratic members of Congress just attacked it.
- [Christmas Should Be More Commercial](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/12/christmas-should-be-more-commercial/): It is time to take the Christ out of Christmas, and turn the holiday into a guiltlessly egoistic, pro-reason, this-worldly, commercial celebration.
- [The Hazard of Doing Business with China – and What to Do About It](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/12/the-hazard-of-doing-business-with-china-and-what-to-do-about-it/): Moral, profit seeking businesses must be vigilant about the China risk; it is in their self-interest to compete and trade freely and not help authoritarian countries expand their control.
- [A Predictable Consequence of Trump's Pragmatism](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/12/a-predictable-consequence-of-trumps-pragmatism/): Despite Trump’s claims to the contrary, it was easy to predict that his arbitrary tariffs would increase prices.
- [Hong Kong Convicts Freedom Fighter Jimmy Lai](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/12/hong-kong-convicts-freedom-fighter-jimmy-lai/): The sham trial and conviction confirm Hong Kong’s tragic descent into tyranny.
- [The Bill of Rights at 234 Years Old](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/12/the-bill-of-rights-at-234-years-old/): Anti-Federalists, who feared a powerful central government, demanded greater assurances.
- [Josh Hawley and Bernie Sanders’s Credit Card Caps Hurt the Poor](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/12/josh-hawley-and-bernie-sanderss-credit-card-caps-will-hurt-the-poor/): Like most political quick fixes, it is an economic prescription guaranteed to harm the very individuals it claims to protect.
- [Madeira: Europe’s Forgotten Miracle](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/12/madeira-europes-forgotten-miracle/): More than a stunning tourist destination or the birthplace of Cristiano Ronaldo, Madeira is living proof that competitive tax policy can transform a remote, peripheral, resource-poor region into an economic success story. 
- [Two Years of Milei: The Reform Agenda Moves Forward in Argentina](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/12/two-years-of-milei-the-reform-agenda-moves-forward-in-argentina/): Today marks two years since Javier Milei took office as president of Argentina.
- [Bill Gates Helps Break the Moral Monopoly Against Fossil Fuels](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/12/bill-gates-helps-break-the-moral-monopoly-against-fossil-fuels/): Bill Gates’s humanist challenge to the anti-fossil-fuel climate establishment was only possible because the “moral monopoly” against fossil fuels has been breaking. Now it will break even faster.
- [Miami Permit Takings](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/12/miami-permit-takings/): Chad Trausch and his wife’s family was growing, so he decided to expand his Miami home. But when he submitted plans for a two-bedroom, two-bathroom addition, the city came back with a strange request: it wanted half his front yard.
- [Bill Maher is Incorrect When He Says Capitalism Has Failed](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/12/bill-maher-is-incorrect-when-he-says-capitalism-has-failed/): Maher’s claim that young people are voting for socialists because of the economy is a superficial explanation.
- [An American Holiday: The Moral Meaning Behind Thanksgiving](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/11/an-american-holiday-the-moral-meaning-behind-thanksgiving/): Ayn Rand described Thanksgiving as "a typically American holiday . . . its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers' holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production." 
- [The History of Thanksgiving: Thanks, Property Rights](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/11/history-thanksgiving-thanks-property-rights/): This Thanksgiving, I give thanks for something our forebears gave us: property rights.
- [The Real Meaning of Thanksgiving: The Triumph of Capitalism over Collectivism](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/11/true-story-behind-thanksgiving/): In the wilderness of the New World, the Plymouth Pilgrims had progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism.
- [The Big Lie in Hollywood: The Hollywood Ten Were Not Victims But Villains](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/11/the-big-lie-in-hollywood-the-hollywood-ten-were-not-victims-but-villains-2/): Selling "The Big Lies" helps Hollywood to keep alive the fantasy that the Left is the victim rather than the perpetrator of injustice.
- [Trump's Fantasy World](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/11/trumps-fantasy-world/): Producers are forced to trade on terms Trump dictates rather than terms of their own choosing.
- [Giving Real Meaning to Veterans Day](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/11/veterans-day/): Any element of self-sacrifice in war is a betrayal of our soldiers and the American freedom they fight for.
- [Insights on The Benevolent Nature of Capitalism](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/11/insights-on-the-benevolent-nature-of-capitalism/): By the "benevolent nature of capitalism," I mean the fact that it promotes human life and well-being and does so for everyone.
- [Zohran Mamdani's "Democratic Socialist" Plans For New York City](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/11/zohran-mamdanis-democratic-socialist-plans-for-new-york-city/): New York’s future does not lie in further centralization or state control. Its vitality has always derived from individual freedom, entrepreneurial energy, and the rule of law. The Big Apple became great because it allowed people to build, innovate, and prosper—not because government directed them.
- [End Emergency Tariffs](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/11/end-emergency-tariffs/): Trade policy, with all its consequences, belongs within the limits Congress established, not at the discretion of one officeholder.
- [Optimism Is Back in Argentina](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/11/optimism-is-back-in-argentina/): President Javier Milei’s clear victory on Sunday, October 26, over the opposition in the midterm elections, where he obtained almost 41% of the vote to 31% of the Peronists, was greeted with market euphoria.
- [Six Reasons to Not Extend the Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/11/six-reasons-to-not-extend-the-enhanced-obamacare-subsidies/): Biden’s pandemic-era Obamacare premium subsidies were sold as temporary relief but have instead produced fraud, phantom enrollees, and subsidies for wealthy taxpayers who don’t need them.
- [Will Trump’s “State Capitalism … a Hybrid Between Socialism and Capitalism” Make America Great Again?](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/11/will-trumps-state-capitalism-a-hybrid-between-socialism-and-capitalism-make-america-great-again/): To be clear, Trump is not pursuing traditional socialism, where the means of production are owned by the state. Nor is he trying to copy exactly China’s state capitalism—but he is applying its methods with what the Journal calls “American characteristics.”
- [Obamacare Has Failed](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/obamacare-has-failed/): What Will It Take for Congress to Admit Obamacare Has Failed? 
- [The Confluence: The Making of a Radical Chicago Activist](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/the-confluence-the-making-of-a-radical-chicago-activist/): The child who became a radical activist for freedom that day cried out in defiance against injustice.
- [Five Myths About Tariffs](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/5-myths-about-tariffs/): Tariffs distort market signals that would otherwise lower costs, raise competition, and motivate reinvestment. 
- [A Win for Milei’s Reform Agenda in Argentina](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/a-win-for-mileis-reform-agenda-in-argentina/): Milei’s victory is significant for two reasons.
- [The Myth of The Medicare "Trust Fund"](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/the-myth-of-the-medicare-trust-fund/): Using the phrase “Medicare’s trust fund” for any reason other than exposing its falsehood is grossly misleading. It implies there’s a pot of money available to fund Medicare, when no such pot exists.
- [Milei’s Argentina Goes to Vote October 26](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/mileis-argentina-goes-to-vote-october-26/): or Milei to continue the vast reform agenda that Argentina needs, his party (or his party and those allied) will have to get a third of the seats plus one in either house—enough to prevent the opposition from overriding presidential vetoes. 
- [Statism is The Great Political Evil](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/statism-is-the-great-political-evil/): Why should you care about statism, the increasing government control over your freedom?
- [Argentina: Don’t Waste Yet Another Opportunity to Dollarize](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/argentina-dont-waste-yet-another-opportunity-to-dollarize/): By dollarizing, no future government would be able to manipulate the exchange rate for electoral purposes so as to make a run against the peso more likely, as has often been the case in Argentina.
- [Let The Cutting of Federal Government Jobs Continue](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/let-the-cutting-of-federal-government-jobs-continue/): The civilian workforce makes Washington D.C. “the nation’s single largest employer, with even more workers than Walmart, Amazon, or McDonald’s.”
- [Why Did It Take Real Estate Developers to End a 50-Year Conflict in the Middle East](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/why-did-it-take-real-estate-developers-to-end-a-50-year-conflict-in-the-middle-east/): Trump's Gaza approach reflects what successful deal-makers grasp intuitively: strategic pressure paired with targeted action against genuine threats like Iran's nuclear program can compel adversaries to negotiate without committing American forces to occupation.
- [Peace Requires Capitalism](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/peace-requires-capitalism/): As Rand observes, capitalism is the only system that makes peaceful co-existence among people and countries possible.
- [Peace in the Middle East is Made Possible By The Overwhelming Military Might of Israel and America](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/peace-in-the-middle-east-is-made-possible-by-the-overwhelming-military-might-of-israel-and-america/): The only response terrorists understand is making them pay a disproportionately heavy price for endangering Israeli life.
- [The National Academies' Perversion of Science](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/the-national-academies-perversion-of-science/): A new “report” by the prestigious National Academies engages in heavy fossil fuel benefit denial in order to claim that climate danger is worse than ever.
- [Columbus Day: A Time to Celebrate](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/columbus-day-a-time-to-celebrate/): Underlying the political collectivism of the anti-Columbus crowd is a racist view of human nature.
- [The Outlook for the Future of Capitalism (Part 10 of 10)](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/the-outlook-for-the-future-of-capitalism-part-10-of-10/): Let the advocates of capitalism proceed in the knowledge not only that socialism is dead, but also that what the world still needs to learn is why capitalism deserves to live.
- [A General Campaign at the Local Level for Laissez-Faire Capitalism (Part 9 of 10)](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/a-general-campaign-at-the-local-level-for-laissez-faire-capitalism-part-9-of-10/): What would be required to restore New York to its former prosperity and greatness would be the combination of the elimination of public welfare, the abolition of rent controls, and the privatization of the city's transportation system.
- [The Separation of State from Religion, Science, and Education (Part 8 of 10)](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/separation-state-education-science-religion/): The system of public education could be abolished over the course of a generation, in a way that need not impose financial hardship on the parents of any child alive at the time of the abolition's commencement.
- [A Pro-Capitalist Foreign Policy (Part 7 of 10)](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/a-pro-capitalist-foreign-policy-part-7-of-10/): In the present-day world, a procapitalist foreign policy is indistinguishable from a pro-American foreign policy.
- [Establishment of Gold as Money (Part 6 of 10)](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/establishment-of-gold-as-money-part-6-of-10/): The establishment of gold as money is essential to the achievement of a capitalist society.
- [Abolition of Income and Inheritance Taxes Under Capitalism (Part 5 of 10)](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/abolition-of-income-and-inheritance-taxes-under-capitalism-part-5-of-10/): A possible way to start on the elimination of the income/inheritance tax right now would be to fight for the immediate adoption of a universal exemption of at least 51 percent of everyone's income from federal, state, and local income taxation under all circumstances.
- [Capitalism and the Abolition of the Welfare State (Part 4 of 10)](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/capitalism-and-the-abolition-of-the-welfare-state-part-4-of-10/): The savings of individuals would steadily replace taxes as the source of provision for old age.
- [The Freedom of Production and Trade Under Capitalism (Part 3 of 10)](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/the-freedom-of-production-and-trade-under-capitalism-part-3-of-10/): An appropriate vehicle for the establishment of the freedom of production and trade, whether all at once or gradually, would be the establishment of one last regulatory-type agency: the Deregulation Agency.
- [The Second Amendment: A Bulwark Against Tyranny in Modern America](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/the-second-amendment-a-bulwark-against-tyranny-in-modern-america/): The Second Amendment's primary purpose—arming citizens as the ultimate check against government tyranny—remains both legally recognized and practically viable in modern America.
- [A Black Hole in Economics: Money Creation and its Consequences](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/a-black-hole-in-economics-money-creation-and-its-consequences/): How money is created, how governments exploit the process to siphon your wealth, and what you must do to prosper in an era of financial repression.
- [Privatization of Property: Importance of Fighting on Basis of Principles (Part 2 of 10)](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/privatization-of-property-importance-of-fighting-on-basis-of-principles-part-2-of-10/): The privatization of property is the most fundamental aspect of a procapitalist political program
- [Toward the Establishment of Laissez-Faire Capitalism (Part 1 of 10)](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/toward-the-establishment-of-laissez-faire-capitalism-part-1-of-10/): If a laissez-faire capitalist society is to be achieved, a political movement pursuing a long-range program will be necessary.
- [The Threat of Ever-Increasing Statism](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/the-threat-of-ever-increasing-statism/): Statism, as Ayn Rand defines it, is the political principle that life of an individual belongs to the state.
- [US Department of Justice's Indictment of Former FBI Director James Comey](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/10/us-department-of-justices-indictment-of-former-fbi-director-james-comey/): The nonpartisan reality is that it is too early to make a full assessment of the merits or demerits of the case.
- [Ludwig von Mises: Defender of Capitalism](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/ludwig-von-mises-defender-of-capitalism/): Ludwig Von Mises is important because his teachings are necessary to the preservation of capitalism and thus of civilization.
- [Americans Must Remain Committed to Freedom of Speech After the Assassination of Charlie Kirk](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/americans-must-remain-committed-to-freedom-of-speech-after-the-assassination-of-charlie-kirk/): Americans are grappling with the horrific assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
- [Counterpoint: Was Jimmy Kimmel Censored?](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/counterpoint-was-jimmy-kimmel-censored/): Their real source of anger is the loss of yet another bureaucratic entitlement program, reminiscent of their hysterics amid DOGE cuts earlier this year. From the public airwaves to USAID to DEI contracts, the deep state and its media mouthpieces have enjoyed a long-standing structural advantage thanks to the largess of the taxpayer. 
- [The Glee of the Mob: On the Murder of Discourse Itself](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/the-glee-of-the-mob-on-the-murder-of-discourse-itself/): There are few spectacles more repugnant to the civilized mind than the sight of educated adults celebrating an assassination. Yet this is precisely what we witnessed in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder at Utah Valley University.
- [Kimmel Suspension and Freedom of Speech](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/kimmel-suspension-and-freedom-of-speech/): Government officials need not act directly to censor speech.
- ["Greenwashing" and the Anatomy of Compromise](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/greenwashing-and-the-anatomy-of-compromise/): As Ayn Rand explains in her short essay The Anatomy of Compromise, compromising rational principles never works.
- [Freedom For Me But Not For Thee](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/freedom-for-me-but-not-for-thee/): We cannot have a country where the rights of one person matter more than the rights of another, simply because they were born in a different country or are the descendants of someone who was.
- [The Kirk Assassination: A Nihilistic Farce in the Theater of the Absurd](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/the-kirk-assassination-a-nihilistic-farce-in-the-theater-of-the-absurd/): The assassination of Charlie Kirk is not your garden-variety spasm of partisan idiocy or sectarian spite.
- [Evil Flourishes When Reason is Abandoned](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/evil-flourishes-when-reason-is-abandoned/): . Charlie Kirk was correct when he said, “When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence.” But it is even more accurate to say, as Ayn Rand pointed out, “When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.”
- [EU Big Brother Menaces Freedom & Innovation](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/eu-big-brother-menaces-freedom-innovation/): Under the pretext of protecting children from online predators, the privacy of millions of users could be undermined.
- [Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man by Timothy Sandefur](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/frederick-douglass-self-made-man-by-timothy-sandefur/): Frederick Douglass unique contribution to American political philosophy is well summarized in the contrast between the mottos he and Garrison used for their newspapers. Instead of Garrison’s call for separation, “no union with slaveholders,” Douglass demanded equality: “All rights for all. ”
- [Why Broadcasters Still Have “Junior Varsity” First Amendment Rights](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/why-broadcasters-still-have-junior-varsity-first-amendment-rights/): Networks and local affiliates try to avoid programming that might strike FCC regulators as misleading, tasteless, or shocking. The FCC has never disavowed its authority over content, and the sword of Damocles still hangs over every licensee.
- [Government Shouldn’t Play “Truth Police”](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/government-shouldnt-play-truth-police/): President Trump and others in his administration can and have pushed back against speech they disagree with and speech they believe to be false. That is their right, so long as their counterspeech does not cross the line to threats of government power.
- [Charlie Kirk: A Gift For Embracing Critics and Debating Ideas](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/charlie-kirk-a-gift-for-embracing-critics-and-debating-ideas/): From universities to legacy media to Antifa to Black Lives Matter to Big Pharma, Kirk fought the most influential cartels in our midst. They noticed.
- [Campus Progressives Preach Tolerance — and Produce Violence](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/campus-progressives-preach-tolerance-and-produce-violence/): Defining words as a form of violence creates a permission structure for actual violence.
- [How Charlie Kirk Inspired a Generation](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/how-charlie-kirk-inspired-a-generation/): America was founded on the principle that we are free to disagree, and Charlie embodied that. Through respectful debate, he showed that people of all backgrounds and beliefs can stand firm in their convictions while still recognizing one another’s humanity. He lived that belief every single day.
- [Lewis and Clark College Dishonors Pioneers](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/lewis-and-clark-college-dishonors-pioneers/): Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were pioneers.
- [The Brussel's Effect: How the European Union Became the World’s Regulatory Superpower](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/the-brussels-effect-how-the-european-union-became-the-worlds-regulatory-superpower/): The EU shapes the behavior of global companies, including American big tech firms, which adapt their products to comply with European norms
- [The U.S. Constitution, the Bedrock of American Freedom](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/the-u-s-constitution-the-bedrock-of-american-freedom/): The purpose of a constitution is to define the structure and rules by which a government operates. In the case of the United States Constitution, those rules are—contra to most other such constitutions—explicitly designed to limit the government’s authority.
- [Hatred of Western Civilization: Why Terrorists Attacked America](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/hatred-of-western-civilization-why-terrorists-attacked-america/): The late Dr. John Lewis read this statement to his class on September 12, 2001 — the day after America was attacked by Islamic Jihadists. His words are all the more relevant today.
- [How Labor Unions Can Be Anti-Labor](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/labor-unions-are-anti-labor/): To anyone who understands the role of the productivity of labor in raising real wages, it should be obvious that the unions’ policy of combating the rise in the productivity of labor renders them in fact a leading enemy of the rise in real wages.
- [How the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Betrayed Children Everywhere](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/how-the-american-academy-of-pediatrics-aap-betrayed-children-everywhere/): The AAP, originally created a century ago to advocate for pediatricians and their patients, has devolved into an advertiser and lobbyist for the corporate interests that fund their operations. So much for “dedicated to the health of all children.”
- [Science As an Excuse](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/science-as-an-excuse/): How we find ourselves again in the awkward position of having trusted the experts and discovering that this was not a good idea. 
- [Celebrating Work](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/celebrating-work/): Let’s celebrate the important value of work on Labor Day—and demand that our governments stop killing jobs through their taxes, climate action plans and regulations and let people invest, trade, and work freely.
- [This Labor Day Celebrate The Human Mind](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/09/labor-day-celebrate-mind/): On Labor Day, let us honor the true root of production and wealth: the human mind.
- [When Soviet Power Crumbled: The Failed Hard-Line Coup Attempt of August 1991](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/08/when-soviet-power-crumbled-the-failed-hard-line-coup-attempt-of-august-1991/): The demise of the Communist Party and the Soviet system was one of the momentous events in modern history.
- [FED is Wrong: Inflation is Not Just About Rising Prices](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/08/fed-is-wrong-inflation-is-not-just-about-rising-prices/): All eyes on Jackson Hole this week as the Fed tackles inflation.
- [Free Valjean](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/08/free-valjean/): Journalism does Valjean a further injustice when it focuses only on the bone and not the boot.
- [How to Unleash Small Modular Reactors](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/08/how-to-unleash-small-modular-reactors/): Testimony to the House Oversight Committee on “The New Atomic Age: Advancing America’s Energy Future.”
- [Recognition of a Palestinian State Rewards Terrorism](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/08/recognition-of-a-palestinian-state-rewards-terrorism/): The threat by France, England, Canada, Australia, and other American allies to “recognize” a nonexistent Palestinian “state” has incentivized Hamas to reject US peace deals and has thus endangered the lives of the 20 living hostages.
- [Freedom in a Post-Covid World](https://capitalismmagazine.com/2025/08/freedom-in-a-post-covid-world/): As we approach the semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence, we need to rethink the very foundations of freedom, its threats, and what we are going to do in response. 

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