Slavery in the Americas: Separating Fact from Fiction
There is no denying the awful history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere. However, to better understand its legacy, we must rely on truth, not myths.
There is no denying the awful history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere. However, to better understand its legacy, we must rely on truth, not myths.
President Biden's executive order to "strengthen equity" in the federal government is doomed to fail. It will create a lot of havoc in the meantime.
Secularists cheer the decline of religion in Western societies, but that loss comes at a huge cost: the decline of civilization itself.
It is easy to dismiss Chinese advancements in electric vehicles as the result of government subsidies, but private entrepreneurship also is playing a major role.
In our technocratic age, it is easy to dismiss the latest technological developments as an avenue toward freedom, but some of them still bode well for markets.
Progressivism is collectivist, anti-individual, and ultimately destroys civilization itself. Austrian economics stands against this force.
Other psychic factors being equal, it is to everyone's self-interest to maximize his monetary income on the market. But this maximum income can then be used for either “selfish” or for “altruistic” ends.
President Biden's recent call to "buy American" is doomed to failure, just like all other protectionist schemes.
Opponents of secession say secession is wrong if some people in the population don't want it and say they will be worse off. The American revolutionaries disagreed and seceded anyway.
Human rights is a term tossed around casually in our politicized age. Must there be a moral base to such rights, and how do we determine that morality?