Election 2020: Choking on the Political Red and Blue Pills
Election 2020 is the same as every other election, only the state’s mask of legitimacy is slipping.
Recent Podcast Episodes
Do Elections Matter?
Ideas have consequences, and unless we spread the ideas of freedom and free markets first, no election or politician will bring about the changes we want.
In Praise of the Cynical Voter
The cynical voter casts a vote with the belief that it might improve his situation, or at least throw some obstacles in front of a regime that is bent on inflicting ever greater damage on the voters.
Down with Political Polling. Up with Prediction Markets.
Pollsters, many of whom predicted an overwhelming "blue wave," obviously failed miserably as reliable gauges of political sentiment. But prediction markets may offer an alternative.
An America with Two Presidents
The new "right to repair" measure on the ballot in Massachusetts has very little to do with rights, and a lot to do with new costly and bureaucratic mandates on automakers.
Here’s What Donald Trump Should Do Before Inauguration Day
Even if he loses, Donald Trump still has time to change military policy, pardon allies, unseat the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and throw a wrench in the deep state apparatus.
How the Left Uses “Science” To Extend Its Bias In Media and Academia
The 2020 election results will be a test of earlier liberal/progressive “investments” in modifying how Americans think about things. But at this point, perhaps more important will be whether, after the fact, people recognize how much they have been manipulated.
A Brief History of Nonwhite Slave Owners in America
Romanticizing the history of nonwhites to portray them as saints is dehumanizing.
How Russiagate Ruined Everything
All of a sudden the tweets are gone, the Facebook is gone, the media is gone. Only crazy people are questioning the most pristine — the most perfect — election of all time.
The Google Election
Whether Trump or not-Trump is finally declared the winner of the 2020 US presidential election, we're in for the battle of our lives. A constellation of state and state-extended apparatuses has openly declared war on Liberty — on us. We're all thought criminals now.
Our National Psychosis
The goal of this national psychosis which they produce and impose on us every four years is demoralization, more than anything. Don't let that happen.
John Rawls’s Theories Help Refute John Rawls’s Theories
Rawls’s doubts about global justice make him an effective critic of his own theory of justice.
Tho Bishop on Election Fallout
Tho Bishop joins David Gornoski on A Neighbor's Choice to analyze the controversy surrounding the election. What lies in store for the pro-liberty, non-interventionist movement?
Lockdowners and “the Desire to Dominate”
Bizarrely, people from Paul Krugman to Tyler Cowen seems to think that libertarians rule the world and that everything that has gone wrong is libertarians’ fault.
How I Survived Travel to a “Democracy” Where I Had No Vote
If democracy is so fundamental, shouldn’t we all have a vote in every place we set foot, from Sunbury, Alaska, to Monaco?
The Election Was a Tie. Now What?
The winner doesn’t represent “the nation.” There is no consensus. We’re not coming together “as a people.” These tired slogans should now strike every intelligent person as nonsense.
Massachusetts Is Back with More “Right to Repair” Nonsense
The new "right to repair" measure on the ballot in Massachusetts has very little to do with rights, and a lot to do with new costly and bureaucratic mandates on automakers.
The Fed’s Balance Sheet May Be Headed to $40–$50 Trillion
If the current thinking continues, the world’s central banks will buy whatever paper governments issue. The result by the end of the decade will be a Federal Reserve balance sheet totaling $40 to $50 trillion.
