Opinion
The tippinsights opinion section reflects articles where our individual authors or individual groups (from anywhere on the political spectrum) utilize our data to make compelling arguments.
Awakening To Revolution: Challenging the Privilege Of The State Churches
What Austro-libertarians—whether religious or secular, Catholic, Protestant, or otherwise—can particularly appreciate is how the Great Awakening indirectly challenged the privileges of tax-supported religious establishments, often unintentionally.
The Destruction of Venezuela’s Economy under Chávez and Maduro
Many decades later, Hugo Chávez’s government initiated an experiment in Venezuela—a country that possesses one of the largest proven oil reserves in the world—that pursued the opposite approach.
China: More State Investment Is Not the Answer
Covering water infrastructure, electricity grids, computing capacity, telecommunications, underground pipelines, and logistics, the program is intended to sustain its already declining growth and stimulate its increasingly flagging domestic demand.
Low Volatility Does Not Mean Low Risk
A real example is August 2024. Markets had been unusually quiet for a long time, and many investors had borrowed heavily in yen to buy higher-yielding assets elsewhere.
American Imperialism And Jackson’s Indian “Removal”
Historians increasingly demonize Jackson for enacting “ethnic cleansing,” ranking his Indian removal program as one of the era’s most momentous laws.
Iran War Drags Republicans Down, Gives Democrats Blowout Victories
They do not want our military fighting a war, any war, for another country when there is no serious threat to our own country.
Did Stock Market Surge Mean Investors Love Dems And Socialism? No, But They Love Gridlock
One thing is clear from this election: the Democratic Party mainly flies these days on its left wing.
Gridlock Is Good
To be clear, it would have been better if the GOP had kept their majorities, and we are deeply disturbed by the choices voters made in several races.
The Empire Has No Clothes
This eye opening could be the single greatest contribution of President Donald Trump.
No, Mayor Mamdani, Voting On Everything Doesn’t Promote Dignity
Being free to cast just one trifling vote among thousands or millions of votes for deciding how to run the breadline, how to assign living quarters, etc. is not some magical “power” that gives you any meaningful control over your own life.
The Inflation Hot Potato
It can be tempting to chalk these dramatic political swings up to any one of the many stories that dominate the news cycle at the moment.
Victor Davis Hanson: America Faces A Radical New Political Reality
Well, we got to first start with history. In the modern period since 1900, in that 126 years, the party occupying the White House in 90% of the elections loses House seats.
Western News Media Propagandists Describe US Bombing Iran As ‘Defensive’
The title frames it as an objective fact that the attack was defensive in nature, without quotation marks around the word “defensive” and without even bothering to uncritically cite US officials as the source of this claim.