In a surprising twist to Argentina’s political landscape, Javier Milei, known by many as el Peluca (”The Wig”) due to his rock ‘n’ roll hairstyle, secured a significant win in the recent primary elections held on August 13th.

Despite its origin in Marxist-syndicalist thought, “fascism” has long been used as a derogatory label for practically anyone on the right wing of the political spectrum. Sometimes the label is warranted, but other times it is used against those who have virtually nothing in common with fascists, such as libertarian capitalists. Progressives are quick to label any kind of economic deregulation and reduction in federal overreach as “fascist.”

Want to have a free market? Fascist. Want to get the federal government out of education? Fascist.

The Argentine primary elections were held on August 13 and only one presidential candidate had presented a government plan in detail. The candidate is Javier Milei, economist and current member of congress. He is a self-described anarcho-capitalist, and he got 30 percent after he was expected to get around 20 percent of the total vote. There was reason to believe that he is more competitive than the polls showed, as they do not account for the level of energy in each voter group and their willingness to show up to the voting booth when the day comes.

Ludwig von Mises and F.A. Hayek, two of the best-known Austrian school economists in the twentieth century, may have followed the same school of thought, but they greatly differed in their work. In consideration of human action, the two men differed in their methodology: Mises advocated for a pure use of reason through praxeology, and Hayek, alternatively, defended the compositive method.

Technology is the main reason why so many of us are still alive to complain about technology.

—Garry Kasparov

If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

—Ray Kurzweil

When I was at the university, I once objected to a classmate’s lazy use of “public goods.” He had used it to favor his policy position, as a shorthand synonym of what’s good for society—only a thinly veiled euphemism for what I want to happen.

“Public goods are things that are nonrivalrous and nonexcludable,” I said, almost sputtering off a nearby economics textbook. “The ones you’re talking about are neither.”

He rolled his eyes in boredom. “Yes, yes, but that’s not what people mean when they say, ‘public goods.’”

According to the American Medical Association, physician burnout “is a long-term stress reaction which can include the following:

• Emotional exhaustion
• Depersonalization (i.e., lack of empathy for or negative attitudes toward patients)
• Feeling of decreased personal achievement”

The article goes on to say: