A Brief History of Nonwhite Slave Owners in America
Romanticizing the history of nonwhites to portray them as saints is dehumanizing.
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John Rawls’s Theories Help Refute John Rawls’s Theories
Rawls’s doubts about global justice make him an effective critic of his own theory of justice.
Lockdowners and “the Desire to Dominate”
Bizarrely, people from Paul Krugman to Tyler Cowen seems to think that libertarians rule the world and that everything that has gone wrong is libertarians’ fault.
The Election Was a Tie. Now What?
The winner doesn’t represent “the nation.” There is no consensus. We’re not coming together “as a people.” These tired slogans should now strike every intelligent person as nonsense.
Massachusetts Is Back with More “Right to Repair” Nonsense
The new "right to repair" measure on the ballot in Massachusetts has very little to do with rights, and a lot to do with new costly and bureaucratic mandates on automakers.
How I Survived Travel to a “Democracy” Where I Had No Vote
If democracy is so fundamental, shouldn’t we all have a vote in every place we set foot, from Sunbury, Alaska, to Monaco?
The Fed’s Balance Sheet May Be Headed to $40–$50 Trillion
If the current thinking continues, the world’s central banks will buy whatever paper governments issue. The result by the end of the decade will be a Federal Reserve balance sheet totaling $40 to $50 trillion.
Why Threats of Election Violence May Be Here to Stay
A repeated pattern of close elections accompanied by threats of violence (or actual violence) is a sign that something is wrong with a nation's political system.
Election 2020: A Cynical First Look at the Results
Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss the failure of the pollsters, the imaginary Blue Wave, and the end of naive democracy.
