In response to my article last week opposing the use of federal soldiers and federal agents on the streets of American cities, my inbox and the article's comment section filled up with readers claiming that it most certainly is the job of the US federal government to step in and take control of US cities against the will of the state and local governments.
Populists need a status quo to oppose, but now Trump stands as the incumbent.
Yes, there are still the people buying into the fear, ratting out their neighbors, etc. But I'm seeing a lot more of the opposite: people recognizing who the enemy is here, and that it is not their neighbors.
For the foreseeable future, war between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be on the table, occasionally turning hot, just as it has in the last weeks. This conflict has no peaceful solution possible other than the one offered by Ludwig von Mises.
Like it or not, libertarians have divided themselves along left-right lines. Here's a brief explanation.
After years of working as a DC journalist, Bovard found that "the more oppressive the government acted, the more slavish the press became."
Eastman saw Lenin as a dogmatist guilty of great crimes, and socialism a recipe for disaster. Reflections on the Failure of Socialism is the record of his insightful assault on socialism and his defense of the free market.
Joshua Gottlieb is an economist who co-authored a recent paper examining the effect of government policy and physician income.
Today's anticapitalists fall into a familiar pattern pioneered by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile.
Economist James Buchanan thinks that a state is necessary, because people wouldn't be able to agree on the boundaries of their rights.
