Nick Hankoff

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Are Police Departments Really Hiring White Supremacists?

03/30/2021 Power & Market Nick Hankoff

Bureaucracies always benefit from political hysterias. A big one today is that police forces are being infiltrated by white supremacists. Pursuing this bogeyman will fill bureaucratic coffers, while...

What Rothbard’s Defense of Religion Teaches Us about Resisting the Covid State

03/04/2021 Mises Wire Nick Hankoff

Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. Murray Rothbard died more than a quarter century before the outbreak of the Covid mania and tyranny, but if he were alive today, he wouldn’t be...

2021 Would Be a Great Time to Audit the Fed

11/24/2020 Mises Wire Nick Hankoff

Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. Gone are the days of the Federal Reserve hiding in the shadows. Now it’s a woke central bank fighting for climate and racial justice...

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What Rothbard’s Defense of Religion Teaches Us about Resisting the Covid State

03/08/2021 Nick Hankoff

Murray Rothbard died more than a quarter century before the outbreak of the covid mania and tyranny, but if he were alive today, he wouldn’t be surprised to see that the most common resistance at an institutional level comes from churches.

2021 Would Be a Great Time to Audit the Fed

11/26/2020 Nick Hankoff

In spite of its relentless public relations efforts claiming the opposite, the Fed remains a leading reason for the impoverishment of working-class and middle-class families.

The Hydroxychloroquine Controversy Is a Reminder That Prescription Laws Are a Government Racket

05/29/2020 Nick Hankoff

In a free country, doctors would be free to prescribe whatever drugs they wish to anyone for any reason. In fact, individuals should be free to buy drugs without a special government-required doctor's note.

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