Legalize It
It is not legalization but prohibition that should be considered outlandish and offensive. This should be apparent to the constitutionalists among us, who define the primary purpose of government as the protection of individual rights.
The Rothbardian World of Online Auctions
In our world of interventionist laws and regulations, I have found a Rothbardian island, so to speak — a place where the ethics of liberty live.
The Nightwatchman Is the Problem
This remarkable book is the most comprehensive, sweeping, compelling, and unsettling case ever penned against what is laughingly called the criminal-justice system. It is a classic — devastating at its core — made newly available to speak to us in our times.
Revisiting the Anthrax Crisis
Bruce Ivins had the skill, the opportunity, and the motives to single-handedly produce the crisis that the state needed.
The Euro: Its Inevitable End
The political project of the euro is in deep trouble. Governments have pledged three-quarters of a trillion of our euros to put out the debt-crisis wildfire, yet interest rates on troubled sovereign debts are even higher than before the announcement of the bailout.
How Blessed Is the State That Thus Destroyeth the Car
The state wants regress, and it is giving it to us good and hard.
The Liquidation Phase and Profit Margins
The Austrian theory of the business cycle has been gaining attention in the popular press and in political circles since the onset of the most recent recession (December 2007). While the artificial boom and subsequent malinvestments fit the Austrian theory, the question in the popular press is, “Which economic policy is the best to alleviate the recession?”
Lying about Libya
Is the US-NATO war in Libya all about “protecting civilians”? Apparently not.
Anarchy in Somalia
Somalia is experiencing progress according to several criteria, despite (or, some would say, because of) its lack of a strong central government. As a result, it is by far the fastest growing, fastest improving among all the less developed countries. This should be a model for the world.
Paper Money Wears Prada
The money inevitably flows to the latest speculative fashion, whatever it happens to be.
