Madhusudan Raj writes from India: I am organizing a 3 day seminar on Austrian Economics from January 23 to 25 in my university department — the Department of Human Resource Development, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat, Gujarat, India — in collaboration with the Center for Civil Society, New Delhi. This is first of its kind seminar on
Those looking for a profound spiritual or religious message in Ridley Scott’s new film Exodus: Gods and Kings , will probably be better off re-watching Raiders of the Lost Ark instead. As an exercise in political and military themes, however, Exodus is moderately successful. Fundamentally, Exodus is movie about a slave revolt led by a former
In chapter 80 of Conceived in Liberty , his history of the American Revolution, Rothbard addresses modern attempts to re-frame the American Revolution as some sort of “conservative” revolution that merely preserved a way of life, and was not a radical departure from the past: The Americans had always been intractable, rebellious, impatient of
As libertarians, we’ve seen it all countless times. A friend or colleague who has been going on and on about how incompetent the government is, will say the exact opposite the second the topic turns to foreign policy. The government can’t deliver the mail on time or treat appendicitis with any sort of reliability or quality control, we are told,
In the wake of the Obama administration’s partial normalization of relations with Cuba, proponents of the embargo condemned the move, with National Review publishing an unsigned editorial claiming that allowing Americans to trade freely with the island nation amounts to giving comfort to murderous dictators. NR ’s editors concluded with : The
Spreading civilization and human rights has long been used as an excuse for state-building through colonialism and imperialism. This idea dates back at least to early Spanish and colonial efforts in the New World, and the rationale was initially employed as just one of many. The importance of the conquest-spreads-civilization claim increased,
The arguments of open-borders advocates may be applicable in some corners of the developed world. However, for small countries next to larger ones, open borders bring serious geopolitical consequences. Original Article: Why Open Borders Don’t Work for Small
The New York Post reports : An alarming deterioration in recruitment standards for the FBI has been exposed in a report delivered to the House Judiciary Committee by an alliance of retired and active-duty agents and analysts. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) requirements pushed by FBI Director Chris Wray have degraded recruitment
In what can only be a surprising move, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has openly defied the White House and invoked Article 1 section 10 of the US constitution as a reason to ignore the Biden Administration’s demand that the State government cease erecting a border barrier along the Texas-Mexico border. For months, the federal government has ratcheted
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