We must form minds capable of liberty, hands capable of work, hearts capable of duty and souls capable of beauty. Within the Halloween theme of scary things, I’ve been recently listening to the audiobook The Rape of the Mind by Joost Meerloo, which examines brainwashing and thought control in totalitarian systems. Meerloo practiced psychiatry for more than forty years. In 1942, he fled the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. In 1956, he published The Rape of the Mind, expla

Carey understood something mainstream economists and politicians are only beginning to rediscover: that prosperity is not found in free trade but in free people and freedom requires the development of national productive powers not dependence on international banks and foreign monopolies.

Beauty before freedom. Freedom before power. Power serving human greatness.

The plan is simple: build a nuclear energy system so capable, so reliable and so affordable that it becomes the foundation for a new industrial age.

When rails flourish, so does industry, agriculture and the living bond between city and countryside. When rails decay, the arteries of production harden and the nation loses its rhythm and unity.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Infrastructure isn’t just concrete and steel. It is the productive scaffolding of civilization. Either we rebuild it (through public financing) or we decay along with it.

Freedom is creation and production. To labor freely, to build, invent and improve, is to participate in the divine act of progress itself.

Omnium Rerum Principia Parva Sunt. 'The beginnings of all things are small.' – Cicero

From a Consumer Economy to a Producer Nation For decades economic policy has treated consumption as the engine of prosperity. Every stimulus, every boom and bust, and every political promise has turned on the same assumption: if consumers spend more, the economy will grow. But what if that assumption is backward? What if true wealth comes not from spending but from producing—building, inventing, and improving the physical foundations of life? This is the premise of the Polit