When Progress Turns Against Itself: The Rise of Anti-Progress
An article of faith with modern progressives is that all social problems can be solved with the growth and application of the administrative state. They have faith in the wrong thing.
Bureaucracy and Regulation
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What Did You Expect?
In this week's Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon takes issue with the DEI movement in higher education, pointing to the utterly absurd case of Jason Arday, a professor of the sociology of education at Cambridge University, as DEI's poster child.
When Death Is Cheaper Than Care: Mutual Aid for the Developing World
Mutual aid societies once were an important part of the US social landscape. Africans can benefit from the same movements—provided their governments get out of the way.
When Death Is Cheaper Than Care: Mutual Aid for the Developing World
Mutual aid societies once were an important part of the US social landscape. Africans can benefit from the same movements—provided their governments get out of the way.
Trump’s Commerce Department as Venture Capitalist: Political Investment at its Worst
By convincing Congress to permit the government to take equity positions in private firms, Donald Trump has completed the transition of the economy from free markets to political capitalism.
What Anthony Fauci Teaches Us About the American Government
Fauci is back in the limelight after the release of his diary before a Senate hearing last week. And that’s good, because the career of Anthony Fauci can teach us a lot about where power actually resides in America and how our system really works.
Federal Farm Interventions: Harmful as Usual
The federal government aid program in one part of the economy creates a problem. Washington policymakers see a new problem. They believe the federal government should create a new aid program to solve the problem created by the earlier government aid program.
Democracy + Bureaucracy = Idiocracy
Modern mass democracy, especially when coupled with bureaucracy, creates uniquely powerful incentives for the production, consumption, and institutionalization of unreality.
Illinois Takes a Swipe at Interchange Fees—and Misses
While governments charge fees for just about everything, suddenly governments have decided that private fees are harmful. Illinois has been especially aggressive in trying to make certain transaction fees illegal, but the results are different than what politicians there anticipated.
Aluminum’s Heavyweight
Two US government interventions are impacting global aluminum’s supply, demand, and prices.
