Interventionism

Texans are suffering terribly. Some pray for rain. Some curse Mother Nature. They should be cursing the government and praying for freedom from the environmental bureaucrats who have caused this shortage of water. Murray Rothbard predicted this in 1993.

Pundits today decry the decline in the number of moderate lawmakers. They call for compromise and label any attachment to the principle of self-ownership "extremism." In 1830, Frédéric Bastiat offered a dead-on discussion of the same problem in France.

Expat Americans and children will be caught in the indiscriminate steel net that the IRS wants to throw around the globe.

Albert Jay Nock wrote one of the first American books of World War I Revisionism.

As far as we know, Ponzi never threatened anybody.

They want us to stop worrying and love the state.
 

These abuses of civil liberties aside, what really stuck out about the TSA screening procedure was not the humiliating and dehumanizing nature of the process, but the complete waste of labor utility. The bureaucratic monster is wasting unthinkable amounts of money and time.

Presented to the Young Americans for Liberty. Hosted at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 13 September 2011.

The economy remains moribund, but not because consumption spending has failed to recover.

The federal government has seized power from parents and local educators and now exerts unprecedented influence in our nation's classrooms.