Libertarian and pro-freedom movements have always drawn disproportionate support from the extremes of the IQ bell curve. The modern Left—pointing to the intellectual shortcomings of some of liberty’s most colorful supporters on the lower end—clumsily attempts to wield this fact as an argument against the Right. Meanwhile, the enlightened Right scratches its head, puzzled by this strange and exotic coalition rallying behind the cause of freedom.

In his 1995 article titled “Repeal ’64,” Lew Rockwell argued against extending the Civil Rights Act 1964 to new areas of application, on the basis that, “Bad law should be repealed, not extended.” His primary objection to expanding civil rights protection to the new groups of victims that emerge daily was that the civil rights regime is incompatible with basic individual liberties such as freedom of association, freedom of contract, and freedom of expression.

Inflation, bailouts, and ultra-low interest rates have widened the wealth gap in the United States. This is no natural market phenomenon, but is driven largely by monetary inflation which always benefits some groups at the expense of others. This has become more apparent during our current age of cronyist interventionism which accelerated following the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. The trend was again solidified during the Covid Panic when forced business closures and 40-year highs in price inflation put further stress on the more marginal businesses.

It is widely held that financial asset markets fully reflect all available and relevant information, and that any adjustment to new information is virtually instantaneous. (For a review and critique of the relevant literature, see E.C.

“People think about evolution as progress. Evolution’s not progress. Evolution is fitness within an environment. And it actually breeds its own fragility, right? If I’m a finch who happens to inhabit the Galapagos Islands and nobody has a beak that’s seven inches long that can reach into a particular pine cone, then I can grow a beak that is first 1 ½”, then 2”, then 3”, and eventually it’s 7”; it provides a huge advantage. But if that environment changes, a 7” beak becomes an extraordinary disadvantage and I go extinct almost immediately.”—Michael Green, Simplify A

In many emerging and tropical economies, the Austrian business cycle does not appear as a temporary deviation from equilibrium, it becomes a permanent condition. Chronic fiscal deficits, unstable legal frameworks, and recurring monetary expansion are not exceptional responses to extraordinary crises, they are structural features of the political order itself. As a result, the familiar cycle of artificial boom, malinvestment, and correction never fully resolves; it merely reshapes itself, extending its distortions across time.

In his book The Essential Rothbard, David Gordon observes that, “Rothbard was no ivory-tower scholar, interested only in academic controversies.

With all eyes on the winter storm raging through America last month, a silent hero was working in the background to keep the lights on. And I don’t primarily mean the emergency workers or the teams of electricians, foresters, and engineers that keep the power lines up and ice-free; these guys operate very much in the foreground, the public well aware of their critical work.

Argentina’s recent drop in monthly inflation below two percent has drawn cautious praise from many mainstream economists, who focus on the immediate success of President Javier Milei’s anti-inflation campaign. Yet, as we saw in the aftermath of his interview in Davos, many of those same analysts still question the cost of his “austerity,” the supposed risks of removing currency controls, or his refusal to monetize debt.