The Way Home
How do we find our way home? I suggest it starts by changing our governmental obligations from care to responsibility. How do you develop responsible people? You do it by making them bear the consequences of their decisions.
The Spirit of Godliness
This is the American story. We tried a new experiment in letting all flowers bloom. It created the greatest garden of diverse faith the world has ever seen. It stands now as an example to everyone.
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The Nonprofit Racket
In the nonprofit world, they last and last. So long as the money is flowing, and the bills are being paid, the rest takes care of itself. The lesson for donors: know the difference between an organization with a purpose and an obvious racket.
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Homesteading: The Little Piggy
Jill and I visited the uniquely experimental Polyface farm here in Virginia. It’s a long-standing, successful older farm where its owner and operator, Joel Salatin, has developed regenerative farming methods grounded in the pragmatic realities of the small farm and homestead.
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How to Protect Patients and Medical Professionals
The future of medicine depends on our willingness to defend these principles, even when doing so requires sacrifice. The doctor-patient relationship is sacred, and it is our responsibility to protect it for future generations of physicians and the patients we serve.
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The Food Emancipation Proclamation
May all your carrots grow long and straight. May tomato blossom end rot affect your Monsanto neighbor’s tomatoes. May the coyotes be struck blind at your pasture chickens. May all of your culinary experiments be delectably palatable.
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The Spirit of Pioneering
Americans refuse to be demoralized. We want to have good lives, and we believe that this is the country to do it in. That’s the spirit of pioneering. It is not lost. It has just ebbed and flowed.
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The Spirit of Thankfulness
America is a commercial culture, but we have always managed to recognize that this means it is also a gift-giving culture, each of us bringing what we have to others to improve their lot and our own at the same time.
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The CDC Needed a Thorough Housecleaning
The CDC’s failures during the Covid-19 pandemic were not just bureaucratic errors. Unless we act now, the next public health crisis will expose an even weaker, more distrusted CDC — one that Americans may simply ignore from the outset.
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Charlie Kirk: May He Rest in Peace
Charlie Kirk had a gift for embracing his critics, for refuting their arguments, for harnessing their hatred. He loved debate and he loved ideas. He believed in discussion and openness, and urged this country to open it up.
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The Spirit of Work
Hard work is a virtue. There is no line between work and life; they are the same. We used to know that. That’s how this country was built: with blood, sweat, tears, and heavy tools and long hours.
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Six Americans Died from Covid in January 2020
Based only on the Red Cross antibody study and the six “Covid deaths” listed on death certificates, “early spread” in America should no longer be labeled a theory or a hypothesis, but as an apparent, undeniable fact.
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