In a recent article in The Claremont Review of Books, Michael Anton says that conventional conservatism does not appeal to American youth. “It’s been evident for a while, at least to me, that conventional conservatism no longer holds much purchase with large swaths of the under 40, and especially under 30, crowd. Tax cuts, deregulation, trade giveaways, Russophobia, democracy wars, and open borders are not, to say the least, getting the kids riled up.”

The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
by Michael Malice
All Points Books/St. Martin’s Press 2019
307 pages

Conservatism, Michael Malice famously remarks, is progressivism driving the speed limit. Malice’s latest book, aptly titled The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics, documents a movement of sorts to change this. 

Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War
Lindsey A. O’Rourke
Cornell University Press, 2018
330 pages

Self-help is largely a disreputable genre, in main because most answers to life are found internally, through trial and error. Digital charlatans, many of whom lack any real success in life beyond their dubious roles as “life coaches,” litter our social media feeds. The fundamental question goes unasked and unanswered: “Why should anyone listen to you?” 

JEFF DEIST: Judge Napolitano, it’s great to speak with you.

Some people, even your fans, think you’ve been too hard on Trump on the issue of alleged collusion by his campaign surrounding the 2016 election. A lot of libertarians don’t think collusion or conspiracy ought to be crimes at all.

The physician shortage is real, present, and only set to worsen. A recent analysis by the of American Medical Association Colleges projected a shortage of up to 122,000 physicians by 2032. This is firstly impacted by an ageing population. As the baby boomers come into retirement, demand will increase rapidly. To make matters worse, roughly 33 percent of physicians are baby boomers.

A few months ago we commented that there will be no energy transition without competitiveness, and given the proposal of Germany to carry out another huge green plan, the European Union faces the opportunity to correct the mistakes made in the past with the wrong subsidies and policies. An opportunity to strengthen the economic fabric of the eurozone. However, the risks of repeating the same mistakes are not small.

As the Mises Institute launches it Fall Fundraising Drive this week, it is useful to reflect on what makes the Mises Institute so different from the thousands of other non-profits around the country that seek to change the world. There are no shortage of groups seeking funding from average people as they claim to work to advance their interests.

Social Security is projected to consume an ever-larger share of America’s national income, mostly thanks to an aging population.

Who are the worst enemies of free markets? Probably (and sadly) proponents of markets. It is as unfortunate as it is sad that market advocates tend to refer to anything that works in the economy as due to ‘free markets’ whereas anything that is not good isn’t.

That’s not quite how it works.

Market exchange happens even if markets are not free.