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Siamak Etefagh

Antitrust law is being touted as an answer to our inflationary economy. Unfortunately, as Austrians have noted, antitrust law does nothing to bolster competition and actually makes the economy less competitive.

David Gordon

Rose Wilder Lane, known for her many writings, also has been a favorite of libertarians. In this week‘s Friday Philosophy, David Gordon reviews a book based on her columns in the Pittsburgh Courier from 1942-45 on race and race relations.

Michael Njoku

With governments cracking down on free speech and even criminalizing alleged defamation, it is time to take a new look at libel laws. Murray Rothbard provides a clear-headed view of libel law—and why it shouldn‘t exist at all.

Thomas Buckley

After the Capitol riots of January 6, 2021, it seemed that everyone learned a word they had never used before—“insurrection.” Yet, if that event was an insurrection, it was a very poor one. Typically, coup attempts do not wrap up in time for dinner.

Michael Njoku

Everyone wants to protect children and what better way to do that than having labor laws that keep young children out of the workplace. But the benefits to children are not as cut-and-dried as labor law supporters would have us believe.

Jesús Huerta de Soto

Argentina President Javier Milei is proposing a new law that would “declare it an imprescriptible crime for the state and the central bank to monetize the public deficit and create inflation.” While it may be politically rejected, it does point to the real dangers of inflation.

Wanjiru Njoya

While US historians tend to tell the simple, good-versus-evil story of the creation and implementation of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, revisionist historians see a series of complex events in which the political agenda of Radical Republicans dominated the South.

William L. Anderson

During a recent podcast, the woman who accused three Duke University lacrosse players of beating and raping her in 2006 admitted that she had lied about the whole thing.