Who’s Afraid of Gender?
by Judith Butler
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024; 308 pp.

The world is full of scraps of paper today.
- Benjamin Anderson, economist, Chase Manhattan Bank (1920 - 1939)

Today, states across the country are beginning to actively embrace prosound money legislation, inviting a critical examination of how America abandoned the gold standard of money and racked up $34.5 trillion in debt. To understand how we got here, it’s important to understand the policy that initiated our monetary decline.

The word “treason” has enjoyed something of a renaissance in recent years—on the Left. It used to be more popular on the Right. During the Cold War, conservatives frequently employed the word to demand their ideological enemies be exiled or executed. Nowadays, anti-immigration activists frequently denounce their opponents as “the treason lobby.” 

“It would be helpful if libertarians understood the government policies they oppose.” My 2 cents in talking with Ron Paul today on his Liberty Report: 

The news media has been reporting steady job growth in the US economy since the Covid 19 crisis. Employment has grown steadily. However, data on employment represents progress in the number of jobs filled. The total number of jobs in business plans is the sum of all filled and unfilled jobs, total employees plus total job openings (see the red line in the top-left graph below).

Why, then, are Israel’s 2023-2024 actions in Gaza genocidal? 

In a November 14, 2023 essay, “Bibi Netanyahu May Find Himself In the Dock, In The Hague,” your columnist explained why, logically at least, Israel has met the threshold for criminal intent, mens rea.

The price or the rate of exchange of one good in terms of another is the amount of the other good divided by the amount of the first good. In the money economy, price will be the amount of money divided by the amount of the first good.

Statists demand that proponents of the free market explain in painstaking detail how every conceivable service would be provided without the heavy hand of government coercion. How would law be administered? How would security be maintained?