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Which standard language a dialect joins is a political question, not a linguistic one.

A nation is made of language. Not blood, not soil, not a passport.

Not judges allotting blame. We seek truth, not guilt.

The other book of 1919—written months before Keynes.

Written mid-battle, by a man who admits he cannot be impartial.

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the results of the midterm elections.

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.

Q: What's the difference between socialism and communism? A: In practice, they're pretty much the same thing. Ryan McMaken and Ruel Domi talk about the debate over what terms like socialism, communism, Marxism, and democratic socialism mean.

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.

As government debt, energy shortages, political unrest, and war risks converge, Mark Thornton argues that Western statism is approaching a reckoning.

Trump’s apparent willingness to restart his unpopular war with Iran after next week’s elections reveals a fundamental problem with modern mass democracy. And, in doing so, it helps clarify how public opinion actually affects government.

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.

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho look past the political circus of midterm candidate campaigns to the state ballot initiatives on the ballot around the country.