Ash Staub

RealClearPolicy — We are over a month removed from the presidential election, and the official narrative that no widespread voter fraud occurred has yet to win over a good portion of the electorate. A Quinnipiac University poll conducted on December 10th found that 77% of Republican voters believe there was widespread voter fraud during the presidential election.

Human Events — How pandemic policy has benefited the corporate elite. If one were to consider the upward transfer of wealth and market share to Big Business since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, one would think such economic changes were intended. After all, it's no secret that the interests of politicians and the corporate elite align more often than not.

Human Events — Why conservatives should change their tactics in the fight against Big Tech. In recent years, the debate over Big Tech's censorship of political speech has largely focused on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). Passed all the way back in 1996, the statutory provision was designed to encourage "a true diversity of political discourse" in the then-nascent medium of the internet.

RealClearMarkets — A plot against small businesses?

Human Events — How public schools are becoming tools of social justice. It seems fairly obvious that the primary purpose of an education system is to educate. Indeed, in a well-functioning republic, the education of future citizens is essential.

Human Events — Why Matthew Yglesias's new book is the future for the Democratic Party. co-founder Matthew Yglesias's new book One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger has been making waves the past few weeks, attracting no small amount of controversy.

Medium — There's an old Winston Churchill adage that seems particularly fitting for this moment: "Never let a good crisis go to waste." And the crisis presented by a mob storming and ransacking the Capitol is going to good use.

Medium — It's easy to treat Edward Bernays and Walter Lippmann as prophets, or rather architects, of the systems and technologies of social control that dominate our current society. Both men argued for a class of "benevolent" elites to use tools of mass information to shape public opinion and manufacture consent for policies that would, theoretically, tend toward the common good.