Ayn Rand Denounced the FCC's 'Public Interest' Censorship More Than 60 Years Ago
In her 1962 essay "Have Gun, Will Nudge," Rand foresaw how government officials would seek to silence people they don't like.
In her 1962 essay "Have Gun, Will Nudge," Rand foresaw how government officials would seek to silence people they don't like.
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An obscure bureau of the U.S. Treasury is using USA PATRIOT Act powers to sniff out under-the-table employment.
The Trump administration's pivot toward socialism did not come without warning.
Friedrich Hayek's most popular work was dedicated to "the socialists of all parties." That phrase perfectly captures politics in 2025.
Biden said "companies are investing in America again." Instead, America is investing in companies—and getting little in return.
Bowser's apathetic pragmatism sustained D.C.'s turnaround success while keeping a hard-left approach to city government at bay.
As fans of horseshoe theory point out, the political extremes might differ on details, but they have a lot in common.
The Department of Government Efficiency didn't accomplish much. We still have cause to mourn its official closure.
Even after the Prop 22 rebuke, California is pushing a system that could standardize schedules and undermine gig work.
Using the mighty power of government to…make stadium hot dogs cheaper? It's one of many ways Khan's petty populism could be coming to New York City.
Venus Bontadelli thought she'd left the nanny state behind when she fled California. But her new home of Powell, Wyoming, wasn't as free as she'd hoped
Zohran Mamdani's message was, to quote a former president, "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
Americans need to go cold turkey from Uncle Sugar.
His plans to offer "free" buses and daycare, freeze rents, and create city-owned grocery stores are expensive and proven failures.
Amazon, with its deep pockets, could have helped turn things around. Instead, regulators consigned the company to die a slow and painful death.
As of mid-2025, there were roughly 50 simultaneous national emergencies in force.
The PayPal and Palantir co-founder warns about the dangers of government overreach and a one-world state.
Civil servants are normally temporarily furloughed during shutdowns. The White House insists the current funding lapse empowers them to permanently fire workers.
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Trump's deal with a lithium mine in Nevada follows similar "creative deals" with Intel and U.S. Steel.
Two bills recently introduced by Hawley would set American AI and the economy back.
Take your opportunities for smaller government where you find them.
The pronatalist movement is selling bad policies and rigid ideas about gender. There is a better way.
Markets thrive on predictable rules, but when the president takes equity stakes or pressures firms at will, investment and risk-taking give way to hesitation.
Nixon's director of the Office of Economic Opportunity set out to shrink government, mostly failed, and was gone in less than a year. Sound familiar?
Some policymakers now say the federal government's stake in Intel should be a "down payment" on a U.S. sovereign wealth fund. The idea is terrible.
Perversely, distrust may encourage the government to grow bigger and more intrusive.
We still need real tax reform and much lower federal spending.
This “public health” position has long been a sinecure for professional activists.
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Congress should now turn its attention to abolishing the unnecessary federal education bureaucracy.
The belief that limited government best protects individual rights turned out to be America’s secret sauce.
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The Douglas, Michigan, city government is hitting a homeowner with crushing fines after reversing its own approval. She’s fighting back in federal court.
A New Deal–era program nearly eradicated the sacred Navajo-Churro sheep—and still reverberates through the Navajo Nation today.
A roaring, swaggering, immensely entertaining throwback to the Jerry Bruckheimer Dad Action Movies of yore.
We’ve made government so powerful that people will fight rather than surrender control to the enemy.
Clay Risen's Red Scare book wrongly frames it as an exclusively conservative hysteria.
America’s founders were deeply suspicious of a standing army.
Downsizing pushed the Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau to adopt tech solutions that it could have tried years ago.
The Federal Trade Commission was established to protect consumers. Under Biden and Trump, its focus has shifted.
To protect America, maybe what we really need to fund is more Tom Cruise.
"We did a lot of field studies and got nothing to show for it," said one U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory researcher.
"All these government programs that regulate and control, they institutionalize mediocrity at best," argues Yaron Brook, head of the Ayn Rand Institute.
John Arnold argues that private markets solve problems better than government or philanthropy, and that real reform comes from decentralization, incentives, and evidence—not top-down control.
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