The Advocates for Self-Government

On the evening of May 19, 2026, in a banquet hall in Hebron, Kentucky, a defeated congressman raised a toast of raw milk, and before the night was out the crowd was chanting for him to run for president. Thomas Massie had just lost. By a margin of roughly 55 to 45 percent, the four-term incumbent had been turned out of the Republican primary in Kentucky's 4th Congressional Di...

A few weeks ago, I had a kitchen experience that offered a profound metaphor on the illusion of power, control, and authority.

One morning, I loaded the dishwasher and pressed Start.

Nothing.

I opened the door, slammed it harder, tried different button combinations, and stood there longer than I’d like to admit. I was convinced that if I just applied en...

As the Iran campaign grinds into its third month, with unpredictable reactions and uncontrollable consequences pushing the conflict toward open‑ended escalation — a prolonged war — the contrast with January’s swift capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro could not be starker.

Yet the two interventions are by the same military and the same commander-in-chief. What ex...

Self-government, at its deepest level, is the belief that people and communities possess the wisdom and capacity to govern their own lives without coercion, centralized control, or force imposed by others.

It’s an idea rooted in sovereignty, voluntary cooperation, personal responsibility, and the conviction that human beings often solve problems more intelligently, comp...

Pick up your phone. How many apps do you have? Fifty? A hundred? You downloaded every one of them.

Now imagine waking up tomorrow and finding only two. A red app. A blue app. The device insists it can run anything you want—but somehow, only red and blue are available. You can’t uninstall either one. You can’t install a third. Wouldn’t you want to return...