Cultural Marxism Masquerading as True History
Ever since people began warning about the threat from Cultural Marxism, the Marxists’ main line of defense has been to deny everything. They claim that their critics are hallucinating and fighting with shadows.
The Marxists in control of universities insist that academic freedom is alive and well. No one has been excluded from the academy for being a conservative. No teachers are indoctrinating their students—they merely teach them true history.
How Medical Licensing Serves Big Pharma at the Expense of Public Health
We’re supposed to believe that medical licensing exists to protect healthcare consumers from “quacks” and “charlatans.” The purpose, we’re told, is to improve the quality of healthcare, yet this system has manifestly failed to produce good patient outcomes.
Only 13% of Republicans oppose the Iran War
“77 percent of [Republicans] support the war, on average. But that’s exactly what we’d expect for almost any Trump policy.”
Rothbard at 100: Five Economic Insights That Still Matter
The State’s Favorite Fallacy: The Cudgel in a Suit
Argumentation theorists in the pragma-dialectical tradition start from a simple requirement for any reasonable dispute-resolution: the parties must be free to advance standpoints and call standpoints into question.
Oil price surge sparks fears of $200 barrel amid Iran war
“Wright’s use of the word “unlikely” was a veiled concession that a spike to $200 was possible, though he repeated that the price jump would be weeks not months.”
GDP growth revised down bigtime to a sluggish 0.7% for Q4
Growth in gross domestic product was down sharply from 4.4% in last year’s Q3 and 3.8% in Q2. The fourth-quarter number was half the govt’s first estimate of 1.4%
Deleting the State: Skoble’s Deleter
[Deleting the State: Requiem for an Illusion by Aeon J. Skoble (Independent Institute, 2026; xiii +134pp.)]
Revisiting Colonial Massachusetts and Mises’s Taxonomy of Money
In economic science, as with any science, appropriate, accurate, and precise terminology is essential, but there are often challenges to fitting real phenomena into established categories. In a previous article, “Massachusetts 1690: The First Western Fiat Experiment,” I examined the first experiment with government-issued bills of credit. This article answers the following question: according to Mises’s taxonomy of money, where do the bills of credit of colonial Massachusetts fit?