James W. Douglass describes how, by 1963, JFK had made himself irredeemably odious to the dark powers of the intelligence community and the military-industrial complex. A review of JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, by James W. Douglass (Touchstone, 560 pages, $22) June 10, 2023, marks the 60th anniversary of […]
https://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Michael Wilkersonhttps://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngMichael Wilkerson2023-11-21 00:29:322023-11-21 14:57:19Sixty Years On, Why the Kennedy Assassination Still Matters
Editors’ Note: We are pretty much free speech purists, even if that speech is repugnant. However, if groups break the rules pertaining to on-campus meetings or intimidate and interfere with other university functions using force and coercion, they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. After the BLM riots, it seems the […]
Florida has once again been ranked No. 1 among the states on The Heritage Foundation’s Education Freedom Report Card, which was released at an event Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa. “They have universal education choice in that state. Any child who wants it can exercise school choice,” says Lindsey Burke, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy.
Brandeis University historian David Hackett Fischer’s African Founders illuminates the leading controversies today with facts that shame political cant and enable us to reassess the centuries of slavery’s effects on American national character. In a scholarly tome of over 900 pages, Fischer follows the method of his earlier work, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America. There he traced […]
https://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Ken Masugihttps://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngKen Masugi2023-11-20 00:26:502023-11-18 07:42:14A Historian Complicates the Racial Divide
A bottom-up libertarian localism that rejects federal funding and resists centralized control is the only viable way to defeat the totalitarian left and to restore the American republic Two political, economic, and cultural movements are vying for the soul of America. One is a program from above, and the other, a movement from below. But […]
A planned speech from recently-censured U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus has been canceled by the school. An ASU spokesperson told The Center Square Friday morning that Tlaib’s speech would not happen on school grounds, saying the groups organizing the event didn’t follow proper channels. “Organizers of events using ASU facilities […]
The Great Depression was the most significant macroeconomic event of the past century, but don’t expect to find an accurate portrayal of its causes in your college history classroom. The most commonly assigned college-level US history textbooks contain obsolete and economically erroneous explanations of the 1929 stock market crash and its aftermath. In a new […]
https://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Phillip W. Magnesshttps://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngPhillip W. Magness2023-11-17 00:28:562023-11-16 06:26:59College History Textbooks Spread Misinformation About the Great Depression
Editors’ Note: At The Prickly Pear, we often run as many as ten fresh videos a day. We think all of them are important or we would not select them. But as with most things, some videos are more important, and more eloquent, than others. With so little time, and so much to read or […]
https://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/Screenshot-2023-10-25-165811.jpg6151165The Editorshttps://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngThe Editors2023-11-15 00:31:342023-11-15 12:38:24IMPORTANT VIDEO: The Last Line of Defense
In a speech following 9/11, President Bush assured us that in spite of this terrorist attack, all humans deep in their hearts long for freedom and brotherhood. It’s a comforting sentiment, but it’s not true. Radical Islamists openly proclaim their disdain for freedom as another decadent Western value. Iranian street crowds commonly chant “Death to […]
https://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Thomas C. Pattersonhttps://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngThomas C. Patterson2023-11-14 00:30:282024-01-17 10:22:18Americans Should Take Islamism Very Seriously
The 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (colloquially referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics) was awarded to economist Claudia Goldin. To preface this article, I don’t believe there should be a Nobel Prize in economics, as I’ve pointed out before. My reasoning on this is in line […]
https://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Peter Jacobsenhttps://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngPeter Jacobsen2023-11-14 00:26:442023-11-12 08:18:31A Nobel for a Student of Civilization
Sixty Years On, Why the Kennedy Assassination Still Matters
/in /by Michael WilkersonJames W. Douglass describes how, by 1963, JFK had made himself irredeemably odious to the dark powers of the intelligence community and the military-industrial complex. A review of JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, by James W. Douglass (Touchstone, 560 pages, $22) June 10, 2023, marks the 60th anniversary of […]
ASU Investigating Pro-Palestinian Protesters Disrupting A Meeting On Campus
/in /by Cole LauterbachEditors’ Note: We are pretty much free speech purists, even if that speech is repugnant. However, if groups break the rules pertaining to on-campus meetings or intimidate and interfere with other university functions using force and coercion, they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. After the BLM riots, it seems the […]
Florida Earns Top Spot on Education Freedom Report Card (Arizona is #2)
/in /by Samantha AschierisFlorida has once again been ranked No. 1 among the states on The Heritage Foundation’s Education Freedom Report Card, which was released at an event Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa. “They have universal education choice in that state. Any child who wants it can exercise school choice,” says Lindsey Burke, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy.
A Historian Complicates the Racial Divide
/in /by Ken MasugiBrandeis University historian David Hackett Fischer’s African Founders illuminates the leading controversies today with facts that shame political cant and enable us to reassess the centuries of slavery’s effects on American national character. In a scholarly tome of over 900 pages, Fischer follows the method of his earlier work, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America. There he traced […]
The Two Nations
/in /by Michael RectenwaldA bottom-up libertarian localism that rejects federal funding and resists centralized control is the only viable way to defeat the totalitarian left and to restore the American republic Two political, economic, and cultural movements are vying for the soul of America. One is a program from above, and the other, a movement from below. But […]
Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Planned Speech at ASU Canceled
/in /by Cole LauterbachA planned speech from recently-censured U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus has been canceled by the school. An ASU spokesperson told The Center Square Friday morning that Tlaib’s speech would not happen on school grounds, saying the groups organizing the event didn’t follow proper channels. “Organizers of events using ASU facilities […]
College History Textbooks Spread Misinformation About the Great Depression
/in /by Phillip W. MagnessThe Great Depression was the most significant macroeconomic event of the past century, but don’t expect to find an accurate portrayal of its causes in your college history classroom. The most commonly assigned college-level US history textbooks contain obsolete and economically erroneous explanations of the 1929 stock market crash and its aftermath. In a new […]
IMPORTANT VIDEO: The Last Line of Defense
/in /by The EditorsEditors’ Note: At The Prickly Pear, we often run as many as ten fresh videos a day. We think all of them are important or we would not select them. But as with most things, some videos are more important, and more eloquent, than others. With so little time, and so much to read or […]
Americans Should Take Islamism Very Seriously
/in /by Thomas C. PattersonIn a speech following 9/11, President Bush assured us that in spite of this terrorist attack, all humans deep in their hearts long for freedom and brotherhood. It’s a comforting sentiment, but it’s not true. Radical Islamists openly proclaim their disdain for freedom as another decadent Western value. Iranian street crowds commonly chant “Death to […]
A Nobel for a Student of Civilization
/in /by Peter JacobsenThe 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (colloquially referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics) was awarded to economist Claudia Goldin. To preface this article, I don’t believe there should be a Nobel Prize in economics, as I’ve pointed out before. My reasoning on this is in line […]