Why is it that starving Venezuelans are eating dogs while Americans are rescuing dogs from hurricanes? This is an audio version of the article “ Capitalism Makes Us More Humane “. Find more Radio Rothbard on iTunes , Stitcher , Soundcloud , Google Play , and via RSS
In an 1800 letter to Gideon Granger, Thomas Jefferson wrote : “The true theory of our constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign nations. Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only...” In other words, the only job
Last week, researchers at the the University of Washington released a new study predicting that US life expectancy would fall further and further behind other countries over the next twenty years. Life expectancy will continue to increase, but at a slower rate than many other countries. Whether or not these predictions ever come true, depend on
More than half of Americans receive more money in various types of government transfer payments (Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, Social Security) than they pay in federal taxes. According to a report released this year by the Congressional Budget Office, only the top two income quintiles in the United States pay more in taxes than they receive in
In countries under heavy US influence or occupation, the US government has a habit of pushing political programs that would be too unpopular to implement in the United States. In Japan, for example, the US occupation after World War II offered an opportunity for American bureaucrats to push abortion policies they couldn’t win support for in the
The Washington Examiner thinks that Hillary Clinton is a radical. In his column today, Philip Wegmann correctly points out that Clinton is sending mixed signals when it comes to so-called civility in politics. specifically, Wegmann notes how earlier this month, Clinton wrote: “You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what
As an addendum to yesterday’s post in civility in government, and the Era of Consensus, take a look at new data released from Pew on faith in government . The percentage of those polled who say they trust the government in Washington hasn’t exceeded 25 percent in ten years. On the other hand, the amount of trust in government as shown in the 50s
A European court has ruled that people can be fined and prosecuted in criminal court for saying things about religious figures. Specifically, saying things about the Muslim prophet Mohammad is verboten, and state punishment is appropriate : The European Court of Human Rights has ruled a woman convicted by an Austrian court of calling the Prophet
Interest on the national debt is quickly becoming one of the largest expenses in the national budget. Based on projections from the OMB, it now appears that growth in interest payments on the national debt will be significantly outpacing any other spending category in coming years. The OMB’s projections show debt-payment outlays growing a
“Right wing” Jair Bolsonaro has been elected president of Brazil, which extends a significant shift rightward from the days of Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff. In Latin America — and especially Brazil, which is itself distinct from Hispanophone Latin America — “right wing” can mean many things, and it certainly isn’t the same thing as we mean in
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