You might deem it self-evident that words should have meanings, but a growing number of people believe words can mean anything the speaker wants. It seems we now inhabit the fictional world imagined by Lewis Carroll, where, as Humpty Dumpty said, any word “means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” In the recent “what is a woman” debates, some argued that the word “woman” means whatever anyone feels the word woman should mean.

The recent “protests” against Scheinbaum were astroturfed. Why? It may be that Scheinbaum’s efforts against the cartels are upsetting the CIA which has long allied itself with drug lords. 

In the end, Fedgov will just print more money and raise taxes. Social security will be preserved by politicians to ensure that  elected officials don’t lose the votes of pensioners. 

New WaPo piece is a tour de force of bad economics on the “dangers” of deflation. 

CBS: The cryptocurrency dropped more than 8% in the last 24 hours alone, falling to $84,096 as of 11:15 a.m. on Monday.

The transformation that occurred in Plymouth Colony in 1623, when Governor William Bradford abandoned the communal labor system and reassigned corn plots to individual households, has long been misunderstood. Popular narratives either reduce it to a bare logistical adjustment necessitated by famine or inflate it into a proto-capitalist awakening. Both interpretations flatten the complexity of what Bradford actually witnessed and recorded.

According to Australia’s Sky News, Donald Trump told Nicolás Maduro in call he must leave Venezuela in order to save himself and his family.

Likely: if a tick “accidentally” escapes from the US lab, then the federal government will mandate mRNA vaccines for all US livestock. 

Among the many figures who contributed to the growth and refinement of classical liberalism in Europe, few are more deserving of renewed attention than Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810–1870). A French Catholic nobleman, publicist, parliamentarian, and intellectual, Montalembert stood at the center of the 19th century struggle to reconcile Catholicism with political liberty at a time when both reactionary monarchists and militant secularists claimed exclusive ownership of France’s future.