Is Culture Degeneration Biological or Ideological?
Price Controls and Drug Shortages in France: A Textbook Case of the Evils of Interventionism
Recently, a collective opinion piece published on April 15, 2025 in the French newspaper Le Monde denounced a shortage of many psychotropic drugs essential for the treatment of certain psychiatric problems in France. The list is long and growing by the week:
Is Culture Degeneration Biological or Ideological?
The process of cultural decay is front of mind for those engaged in the pronatalist movement. The question of how it happens was raised by Robin Hanson in his recent appearance at NatalCon. His goal is to discover what cultural elements have contributed to fertility decline, which he contends will accelerate movement towards a self-destructive way of life.
Price Controls and Drug Shortages in France: A Textbook Case of the Evils of Interventionism
Biden, Bombs, and Bonds
MMT and US History: Redefining Chartalism
Student Loans: A New Sheriff in Town
The 163rd Anniversary of the Battle of Front Royal
James Bovard: Today is the 163th anniversary of the battle of Front Royal, Virginia (the town near where I was raised). On May 23, 1862, almost all the Yankee soldiers in Front Royal were captured, killed or wounded.
Relearning the Lessons We Never Learned from World War I
On August 10, 1915, British physicist Henry Mosely—who would’ve likely won the Nobel Prize that year—died in perhaps the most disastrous error mankind has thus far made, The First World War (1914-18). Bright and pious fellow humans that had absorbed German, French, British, Russian “identities”; students, fathers, engineers, “great minds,” and “experts,” who even shared a common European Christian heritage, reverted to their tribal ape-like nature. For “God, honor, flag, and country” they slaughtered each other, leading to about 20 million deaths and millions more left invalid.