Notes on Trump’s Executive Order for Tech Companies
Minneapolis Riots Are a Reminder That Police Don’t Protect You or Your Property
The Flexner Report and Our Modern Medical Cartel
Although we’ve been given a brief respite from COVID-19 pandemic news, it’s likely that the killer of over one hundred thousand so far in America will leap back to the front page and that continuous calls to flatten the curve will return to top of the mind.
As a friend and fellow ex–University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) Rothbard student reminded me, flattening the curve essentially means to socialize medicine: to ration healthcare, giving preference to COVID sufferers at the expense of non-COVID emergency medical care and elective procedures.
Riots: Not Fun nor Profit for the Rest of Us
Last Monday, May 25, George Floyd died in police custody after an arrest in Minneapolis. Floyd had moved to Minneapolis trying to “start a new life“ after a long prison sentence. According to one account, “Floyd was charged in 2007 with armed robbery in a home invasion in Houston and in 2009 was sentenced to five years in prison as part of a plea deal, according to court documents.”
Economic Collapse Has Turned Many Europeans against the EU
Since the beginning of the year, the corona crisis has monopolized news coverage to the extent that a lot of very important stories and developments either went underreported or were ignored altogether. One such example was the very surprising ruling that came out of the German Constitutional Court in early May, which challenged the actions and remit of the European Central Bank (ECB).
Why “Public Goods” Don’t Justify Government Intervention
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article.
The theory of public goods is one of the main arguments that is usually employed to justify economically the existence of the state.
The Great Society: A Lesson in American Central Planning
[Review of Amity Shlaes, Great Society: A New History (New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2019).]
Mr. Trump, Don’t Deploy the Military to American Cities without Their Consent
We live in a time when it is commonly assumed that the president of the United States ought to intervene everywhere—both domestically and globally—and solve every problem. The fact that these interventions rarely solve any problems of any kind is apparently of little importance. What matters is that the president “do something!” and that “something” usually involves more regulation, more surveillance, more government spending, and—in the worst-case scenarios—more government troops and federal agents unleashed upon both Americans and foreigners.
