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Great Britain‘s Labour government, since coming into power last year, has taken a number of measures that already are resulting in lowering the nation's standard of living.

We should not look just at the visible and obvious results of tariffs. We must also look at the good things that the tariffs keep from happening.

Most modern Americans cannot conceive of states seceding from the US, but in 1860, the majority of the people believed secession was both legal and moral and saw the Constitution as permitting it. 

While Marxist progressives claim that “class conflict” is the source of social ills, the true conflict involves the tax-consuming caste using state power to plunder the productive tax-paying caste.

It seems that the EU leaders have decided on a new military spending spree. To pay for this, the EU will issue new war debt on top of its current high debt loads.

“Liberal” remains the only truly accurate and consistent term for the ideology of freedom and free markets. Without it, we can't write a coherent historical narrative. 

While the Biden administration's attempts to forgive billions of dollars of student loans ran into legal problems, there is even a better, more libertarian, way to deal with this issue. A widespread default is a libertarian option that reflects Rothbard‘s own worldview.

The Atlantic recently published an article claiming that modern “food deserts” exist because the government fails to enforce a New Deal law meant to force up prices and stifle competition. Once again, we see how progressives push their economic illiteracy on everyone else.

The implementation of Central Bank Digital Currencies isn‘t just about money. It also is about personal freedom and how CBDCs give the government enormous powers over individuals.

For the first time since the war began, a senior US official criticized Ukraine’s use of conscripts. This is overdue, as conscription is one of the worst tyrannies a government can impose on the people under it, and Americans have now been forced to support it for years.