Texas is at a crossroads. Demographic changes and migration from other parts of the United States and world are transforming the state, leading to both new challenges and new opportunities. Incredible economic growth is attracting new residents, new businesses, and new industries. In many ways, we may be on the verge of a new Texas Golden Age of unprecedented prosperity…
How do you make up your mind about specific issues and policies? Apart from following the opinions of like-minded people in your social circle or the recommendations of some writer or celebrity, who and what informs your decision-making process? Rather than taking an ad hoc approach to policy, we suggest that one develop an intellectual framework based on his or…
Conservatives face a challenge today similar to that faced by William F. Buckley Jr. at the founding of National Review as he stood athwart History yelling “Stop”. Socialists of Buckley’s day spoke of dialectical History inevitably advancing toward a socialist order. Today, progressives warn of the imminent death of capitalism at the hands of disruptive technologies. Critics of capitalism tell…