Decorated eggs, the Easter Bunny, pretty dresses, lavish meals, Peeps, chocolates, extravagance, joy—religious claims to the holiday notwithstanding, Easter is a celebration of spring, fertility, and fun. People of faith are free to celebrate the alleged resurrection of Jesus. But people of reason ignore that myth and celebrate the secular…

Turning out the lights for “Earth Hour” is the perfect symbol of the ultimate goal of the environmentalist movement, which is to erase industry—and thus human life—from the face of the Earth. To genuine environmentalists (as against people who call themselves environmentalists but don’t understand what the movement is really…

[caption id="attachment_92906" align="alignnone" width="720"] Image by Gage Skidmore[/caption] The night after Andrew Breitbart died, I watched an episode of Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld in which Gavin McInnes told a delightful story about Breitbart. In an earlier episode of Red Eye, Gutfeld and McInnes had been mocking the idea of Donald…

Here’s an excerpt from my article “The Iranian and Saudi Regimes Must Go.” This is the kind of speech that a rational, America-loving, rights-respecting candidate for president would deliver, and the kind of policy that Americans should demand from any candidate seeking our votes: . . . Americans (and our…

Boaz Arad, a founder of and spokesman for the Israeli Freedom Movement, discusses the inception, activities, allies, and successes of the Israeli equivalent of the Tea Party movement.

Surveys the metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and politics of these two creeds, showing, at each level, that only one of them corresponds to observable reality.

John was an ideal man, and his early death comes as close as anything can to being a metaphysical flaw in the universe.

Ari Armstrong and Diana Hsieh answer a letter about abortion rights; Craig Biddle answers a letter from Timothy Sandefur about “natural rights”; Richard Salsman answers a letter about Keynes and Hayek; and athlete Donny Shankle praises TOS.

Craig Biddle introduces the Spring 2012 issue.

http://player.vimeo.com/video/33306702?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0 Sasha DiGiulian began rock climbing when she was 7 years old. At 18, she made the most difficult ascent by a woman in American climbing history. Now 19, and one of the top climbers in the world, she has deferred her acceptance to Columbia University for a year to…

The realm of romance, like that of economics, is governed by Say’s Law. Supply constitutes demand. What you make of yourself (supply) is what you have to trade (demand).

Randsday celebrates the birthday of the philosopher who codified the virtue of selfishness and made the moral argument for a free society.

Craig Biddle: I’m speaking with Peter Huessy, president of Geo-Strategic Analysis of Potomac, Maryland, a defense and national security consulting firm. Mr. Huessy also writes for Family Security Matters, The Hudson Institute, Big Peace, and Human Events. Thank you for joining me, Peter. Peter Huessy: Thank you for inviting me.…

[Written on Jan. 3, posted on Jan. 4, 2012] My good friend John Lewis died this morning having battled cancer relentlessly, and I want to say a few words here about his life. John was one of the greatest men I’ve ever known. A husband, historian, writer, speaker, professor, musician,…

Craig Biddle: I’m speaking with Clare Lopez, senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy and at The Clarion Fund, vice president of The Intelligence Summit, and a 2011 Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute. She formerly was a professor at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies (CI Centre),…