The supporters of socialized healthcare dream that everything will remain the same, except that someone else will pay the bill. But man changes by degree as liberty is lost, writes Jim Fedako. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven
It sometimes seems that every regime needs to find its justification in science. Ideology is fine, to a point. But the final arbiter of legitimacy resides, or so it seems, in science. So what of science? The Soviet Union had its ideological foundation in dialectical materialism — that edgy methodology that combines, you guessed it, dialectics and
Living at the intellectual margin can challenge even the most ardent advocate of free markets and liberty. However, I contend that history is on our side. In the preface to his book Marx’s Religion of Revolution (1989), Gary North writes of an intellectual movement that was for years confined to the dark recesses of coffeehouses and tearooms. Igor
The word: safety, when combined with transportation and administration. According to statistician William M. Briggs, bad statistics allows the safety in the name.
Ohio law requires new drivers under the age of 18 to complete a state-approved driver education course consisting of “a minimum of 24 hours of classroom instruction and 8 hours behind the wheel.” So it should come as no surprise that there are a host of private companies providing state-approved driver training. But what are these companies really
... that it’s not made in a log cabin. Log Cabin Syrup, that is. Seems the good state of Vermont is afraid consumers will confuse Log Cabin All Natural syrup with 100% maple syrup. “The FDA said it does not have a definition for ‘natural.’” At issue is the “natural” claim. Reminds me of an exchange I heard during a session of my local zoning
Thomas L. Friedman notes that, “Sridhar, Bloom’s co-founder and C.E.O., said his fuel cells, which can run on natural gas or biogas, can generate electricity at 8 to 10 cents a kilowatt hour, with today’s subsidies .” (emphasis mine) Today’s subsidies?!? What is the price absent handouts? That’s what I want to know. I cheer folks like Sridhar as
On my way home from work I was browbeaten by a timely public service announcement: Acting U.S. Fire Administrator Glenn Gaines wants you to Put Safety In Play During the Fourth of July . Of course you can be assured that Gaines is vigilant when it comes to your safety. He is, after all, acting U.S. fire administrator of the U.S. Fire
An article over at The Economist comments on the Austrian business-cycle theory. The article states, “The Austrians may have said smart things about the boom, but what about the bust? One criticism is that the Austrians offered a ‘counsel of despair’, suggesting that the authorities do nothing while a crisis blows itself out.” The authorities do
Some folks strain to find their agenda in every event. For Georgie Anne Geyer , state-mandated population control provides the only hope for her agenda: saving the environment, whatever that means. So she sees the heat, drought and fires this summer in Russia as proof that Malthus was right, all along. Yet While it is true that today’s disasters
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