John Mearsheimer and Europe’s Bleak Future
With Charlie Kirk Gone, TPUSA Supports US War With Iran
With Charlie Kirk out of the way, TPUSA which he co-founded, is now lobbying for a US war with Iran.
A Juggernaut of Destruction
Nature is stingy; the things we need to sustain life above a primitive level are scarce. Fresh tomatoes, iPads, and rotator cuff surgery do not come forth as easily as the air we breathe, and thus man had to discover on his own how to produce or acquire them.
Why Banning Hate Speech Is Evil
We often hear demands to ban so-called “hate speech.” Negative remarks about various groups, including women, black people, homosexuals, Jews, Muslims, can it is alleged, have a negative effect on members of the group who hear or see the speech. It encourages people to hate them and cements negative stereotypes about them in people’s minds. In addition, hearing or seeing “hate speech” offends the members of the group.
Trump’s Red-Carpet Welcome of Mohammed bin Salman
Many people are up in arms over President Trump’s red-carpet welcome of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS). They cite the CIA’s conclusion that bin Salman orchestrated and ordered the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi after he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to secure documents relating to his upcoming marriage.
At a press conference yesterday, Trump observed that “things happen” in life but emphasized that bin Salman played no role in Khashoggi’s gruesome murder, which bin Salman himself denies playing a part in.
“Thin Libertarianism” and the Dave Smith-Liquid Zulu Debate
A recent debate between Dave Smith and YouTuber “Liquid Zulu” highlighted a deep misunderstanding of libertarian theory related to the nature and scope of the philosophy, and its axiom, the Non-Agression Principle. Liquid Zulu argued for an uncompromising position — that it is always immoral to violate the NAP, without exception. This rigidity was tested with hypotheticals. In one, an alien race threatens to destroy Earth unless someone steals a single penny. In another, a man could save his dying mother only by stealing his neighbor’s ladder.
F. H. Bradley Is Not a Nut
The late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century philosopher F. H. Bradley is not at the center of contemporary philosophical discussion, but he was, in my opinion, one of the greats, and, in his book Ethical Studies (first published in 1876) he raises some important questions criticisms of utilitarianism, mainly of the sort favored by John Stuart Mill and Henry Sidgwick.
Karl-Friedrich Israel on The Peter McCormack Show
Inflation isn’t an economic metric — it’s a political tactic. When governments lie about inflation, they’re not miscalculating; they’re stealing from you. Mises Institute Fellow Karl-Friedrich Israel joined The Peter McCormack Show to explain how inflation quietly enriches asset holders, punishes workers, and pushes Europe into a slow, silent decline.