As we look back on the recent riots in France, we look even further back to the wisdom of another Frenchman, J. B. Say who understood something about economics and what makes a good society. Keynes claimed to “refute” Say’s Law when, in reality, he refuted nothing.
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We need more Laissez-Faire Libertarians who understand that society needs no top-down rule. No society in the world needs good government in order to be free; it needs sectors of society that government cannot touch.
History books often connect the Great Awakening to the American Revolution, but the connection remains vague. One overlooked link is how the revival challenged privileged religious establishments and helped fuel later colonial resistance to parliamentary supremacy.
A choice between the Republicans’ corporatism and the Democrats’ socialism is a sad choice.
Historians increasingly demonize Jackson for enacting “ethnic cleansing,” ranking his Indian removal program as one of the era’s most momentous laws.
Increasingly, Americans and people around the world see the American government as a bankrupt, despotic empire headed in the wrong direction. The recent elections will change nothing.
The state and its entourage are first and foremost a self-serving gang who rarely suffer the consequences of the disastrous policies they inflict on the rest of us.
While New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani correctly points out that people are being priced out of the essentials of daily living, he fails to identify the cause: government. Instead, he promises that government is the solution.
Jefferson did not mean equality in the sense that everyone is more or less equal in talents and abilities. And he certainly did not mean that equality (however defined) ought to imposed by a powerful state.
While we should not fear mass unemployment from AI, it is true that some jobs will be displaced, including many BS jobs.
Nathan Cofnas exposed a major fraud in elite British academics. For that, prosecutors want to put him in prison because the academic left prefers fantasy to the truth.
What makes a nation? Is it simply a collection of ideals or does it depend upon one’s lineage, and “blood and soil”? In reality, nations are complex creations where both ideals and ties to the land are important.
Although they never actually accomplished it, one of the worst things the Keynesians did was convince some people that they had refuted Say's law of markets.
Many have misstated Say’s Law for years. J. M. Keynes incorrectly attributed a concept to Say that he did not hold: “supply creates its own demand.” Even the great Thomas Sowell restated this error.
Twenty-five years ago, in the immediate wake of 9/11, Ron Paul did not propose doing nothing. Instead, he proposed targeting Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda rather than launching a global War on Terror.
The federal government has poured billions of dollars into the mental health industry, and the result seems to be even more diagnosed mental illnesses with no relief in sight.
Cuba’s economy is collapsing in large part because the US government is engaged in illegal and immoral economic warfare against it.
As government grows and people on most sides of the political debates demand government punish their political enemies, we are seeing an increase in political violence. Government cannot prevent this violence; government is the violence.
From a Misesian and Rothbardian perspective, can the absence of a unified and centralized state, under certain conditions, create greater space for political pluralism, institutional competition, and constraints on state power? Kurdistan might provide some answers.
Instead of trying to seek peaceful relationships between southern whites and former slaves during the Reconstruction period, the Reconstruction governments armed the former slaves and helped to set off violence and strife.
