Lysander Spooner’s Flawed War on Poverty
Lysander Spooner was one of this country’s most important libertarians. His views on economics, while flawed, are free market in principle and have some insights Austrians can appreciate.
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The UK Blood Scandal Exposes British Elites
The tainted blood scandal in the UK should be a warning to people about the dangers of the National Health Service. Instead, we hear endless promises of reform that never will happen.
Caitlin Clark, Bullying and the Business of Basketball
Caitlin Clark, with her array of basketball skills, has filled arenas in her inaugural WNBA season. However, the idea of merit clashes with the leftist, egalitarian mindset that dominates in the league, and the early reaction to her success has been discouraging.
Who Needs the Fed?
The Fed claims—always without evidence—that everything “would have been worse” without the Fed. Yet history has shown otherwise.
Why Consumer Sentiment Fell To A Seven-Month Low
The US consumer has been adding debt to maintain consumption, and credit card debt has reached new record levels. This is not a strong economy.
Harry Frankfurt, Humbug, and the Battle against Wokery
Philosopher Harry Frankfurt definitely was not a product of modern academe, where wokeness and outright humbug rule. He understood that the equal-outcomes portion of DEI was neither possible nor desirable.
Democracy Is Not the Same Thing as Freedom
The ruling classes insist that a country with a democratic government is also a free country. However, democracies also can be tyrannical and despotic. After all, in the final analysis, a democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
Private Property Comes from Scarcity, Not Law
The socialist elites that dominate our institutions insist that private property is nothing more than a social construct held together by violence. As usual, they misunderstand that scarcity itself, which is the basis for economics, is also the basis for private property.
The State Wants to Nationalize Second Mortgages. What Possibly Can Go Wrong?
As if the government has not done enough destruction in the housing market, there now is a scheme to have the government nationalize second mortgages. Given the previous disaster with primary mortgages, we do not anxiously await the outcome of this proposal.
There Is No Such Thing as “Wage Slavery”
Those who push the "wage slave" narrative claim that workers are "forced by hunger" to work ceaselessly without an opportunity to bid up wages. History has shown this is not the case.
