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The passage of an income tax in the early twentieth century was an enormous shift toward a far more centralized and powerful US state.

To prevent rail accidents like the one in East Palestine, dial back government regulation and allow the tort system to work.

Federal laws with acronyms are usually bad news. (Think the USA PATRIOT Act.) The RESTRICT Act is yet another Orwellian proposal in which the federal government assumes ignorance is strength.

Once the Southern states accepted the Thirteenth Amendment, Lincoln was entirely content for the old Southern elites to resume their positions of power and for many blacks to continue in a condition little better than bondage.

The current banking crises have deep roots in US financial history. Monetary authorities have engaged in inflationary behavior for more than a hundred years.

Jonathan Newman joins Bob to critique a recent Twitter argument where some were claiming that supercomputers solved the socialist calculation problem.

Both artists and athletes perform for others. When governments get involved it either is for subsidies or censorship. Neither is satisfactory.

Austrian economics is defined by its adherence to the a priori methodology, not empiricism. That places it at odds with mainstream economics, which stresses the methodology of positivism.

Ryan and Tho discuss the cancellation of Tucker Carlson's Fox News show and the similar treatment of Murray Rothbard by Bill Buckley

After years of inflationary intervention, the Federal Reserve has no more rabbits to pull out of the hat.