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Jeff Pierson

My work challenges institutions, exposes contradictions, and defends liberty with sharp analysis. Lacking the credentials to lie confidently, I simply tell the truth.

Who Pays for Growth?

Whether or not Idaho fully eliminates the property tax, putting the question seriously on the table forces a review we’ve avoided for decades. Of the $2.1 billion that flows through local taxing districts each year, some is genuinely essential —…

What Steinbeck Saw

John Steinbeck

I’m not interested in arguing whether John Steinbeck was a communist. People have been having that fight since The Grapes of Wrath hit the shelves in 1939, and nobody’s won it yet. The question misses the point. What Steinbeck did—what made his…

The Fight for Jerome County

Wind turbines in a field

In the spring of 2026, while Idaho legislators debated tax exemptions for Big Tech and data center and developers quietly optioned farmland across the Magic Valley, Jerome County residents did something almost nobody does anymore: they read the county’s entire…