“You must buy this book,” my high school chemistry teacher told me. The book was Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb, and it predicted doom for the earth and its populations. “The battle to feed humanity is over,” it declared, and mass starvation was both inevitable and imminent.

December 2025 marks the centennial of Pope Pius XI’s 1925 encyclical Quas Primas, which established the feast of Christ the King. Today, this feast is often commemorated by your average, milquetoast clergyman through calls to metaphorically embrace Jesus Christ as king and to have him “reign in our hearts.”

How to Counter Arguments That Taxation Is Legitimate
Dr. David Gordon | Mises Institute Senior Fellow
Sponsored by Jane Shaffer, in Memory of Butler Shaffer

Dr. David Gordon explained why the leading philosophical defenses of taxation—from Rawls’s difference principle to Nagel and Murphy’s “myth of ownership”—collapse, and why natural rights still say taxation is theft.

It’s no secret that Generation Z is fed up with the economic status quo. And rightfully so. They face a housing affordability crisis and an increasingly thin job market. They’ve suffered years of unrelenting inflation at this point. The frustrations of Gen Z, and the economic establishment’s disinterest in addressing them, have driven young Americans to reject the economic dogma that has dominated for decades and to instead seek out answers from outside the economic mainstream.

Rowan Parchi has worked in financial markets since 2002 and is the founder of Praxis Path. Previously, Rowan worked in institutional equity sales at Credit Suisse in Sydney, New York, and Hong Kong, and at the hedge fund Platinum Asset Management in Sydney. His work has been featured on the Mises Wire.

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