Amidst the Trump administration’s mounting efforts to collect swaths of sensitive data on American citizens—with the help of big-tech crony Peter Theil and his tax-funded spyware company, Palantir—the Federal Trade Commission is valiantly pursuing their mission of “protecting America’s consumers” by cracking down on… Fortnite?
“The death of CAFE could very well signal the rebirth of the U.S. auto industry.”
In a recent video discussing WNBA players’ wage protests—some of whom wore shirts reading “Pay us what you owe us”—Ben Shapiro addressed the controversy. I anticipated at least a competent lay explanation of how wages are valued by firms and capitalist-entrepreneurs. Instead, what followed was an incomplete explanation. He stated:
Donald Trump announced on Sunday that his administration had reached a trade deal with the European Union, which would place a 15 percent tariff on all goods Americans buy from Europe and require the EU to purchase a certain amount of oil and weapons from some US firms.
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the party of laissez-faire and free markets—known today as “classical liberals”—often pushed a political program that included the adoption of written constitutions. The old liberals—such as the American revolutionaries and French bourgeois reformers—thought that written constitutions would offer a substantial barrier to abuses of state power.
