Americans wrongly believe that the best way to take care of our scenic lands is through government ownership and administration. The reality is that bureaucrats are not good land managers, and certainly not as good as private owners.
When the legal scholar Richard Posner labeled Critical Race Theory as having a “lunatic core,” he was echoing what Ludwig von Mises years before had written about polylogism. Unfortunately, CRT now dominates the nation‘s law school curriculum.
Recent crises have highlighted that central banks do not prevent systemic disruption. Often, their interventions have only delayed the reckoning but made crises worse.
According to the neo-conservative war hawks, every so-called enemy is the Next Hitler and every year is 1939. The failure to seek new conflicts abroad is equated to the failure of Great Britain and France to stand up to Hitler before World War II broke out.
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The hackneyed argument for government regulation of speech—yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater—has always been a red herring. As Murray Rothbard wrote, private property rights should be front-and-center when dealing with free speech issues.
Werner’s experiment is dubious at best. He strawmaned the alternative theories and set up the experiment in such a way that only his preferred theory would be confirmed.
The media is spinning President Trump‘s “trade deals” as a “victory” for the White House. Yet, when we break down these “deals” into their particulars, we find that American producers and consumers will be worse off than before.
After the tragic 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the FBI rolled out the usual “lone nut” narrative about who did it. However, much evidence exists to show that FBI informants and agents embedded with white supremacy groups may well have been involved.
DOGE has failed in its stated mission. Trump is no fiscal hawk. The Republican leadership in Congress—with Trump’s encouragement—will keep spending at record-breaking levels.
