In the early 1950s, a remarkable group of young intellectuals formed what later became known as the Circle Bastiat—an informal but intense salon of free-market thinkers centered around the ideas of classical liberalism and Austrian economics. Named after the 19th-century French economist and liberal philosopher Frédéric Bastiat, the Circle was more than just a casual club: it became one of the important cradles of the modern American libertarian and Austrian School revival.

Here is a challenge for those who like solving mysteries—the case of the disappearing Marxists. You will have heard that Eric Foner is not a Marxist, and no academic historians admit to being Marxists. Neo-Marxists are not real Marxists, and cultural Marxism does not exist. Indeed, we are to believe, there are no Marxists in America today.

The Marxists have come a long way from a time when, not having any power, they mounted the barricades and insisted that everyone must recognize that they exist. Now that they run most institutions, they all deny being Marxists.

Donald Trump today, in a post on his social media platform Truth Social, stated that his goal for the current war with Iran is unconditional surrender. Specifically, he wrote: “There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” 

Moreover, Trump specified that the US will have final say on “the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s).”

In stating all this, however, Trump is essentially announcing that the US will be at war for an extended period. 

Back in the year 2000, before George W. Bush was even elected, Lew Rockwell already had the Republicans’ number. Having lived through numerous GOP presidents before, Lew knew what was coming. In a column titled “Dreading Republican Rule,” Lew wrote: 

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Whenever taxpayers object to being forced to bankroll research they consider immoral, the standard retort arrives on cue: “Don’t politicize science.” But public funding is already the politicization of science. The moment research is financed by compulsory taxation, it is no longer a purely scholarly enterprise, it becomes a state project—filtered through bureaucracies, grant incentives, and the ideological needs of the regime that signs the checks.

December numbers were also revised way down. The US economy now has fewer jobs than it did 9 months ago.