Media and Culture
Subsidizing Higher Education Is Not Creating Widespread External Benefits
Contrary to the claim that taxpayer subsidies for higher education provide great social benefits, these subsidies actually are a wealth transfer from the less-well-off to wealthy people.
The Economics of American Gerontocracy
With Yale economics professor Yusuke Narita suggesting mass suicide—seppuku—as the answer to Japan's rapidly aging demographics, Jeff and Bob take a hard look at the economics and humanity of greying America.
Good Causes, Brand Trust, and Profits: Why YouTuber’s Private Charity Is Wrongly Criticized
When Jimmy Donaldson, better known on YouTube as MrBeast, paid for a thousand people to have cataract surgery, the usual suspects in the media panned him and questioned his motives.
Meanwhile in Yemen, the US Government Supplies Weapons to Continue the Carnage
Most Americans are not aware of the conflict in Yemen or the US role in a war that continues to kill and maim the innocent. It's time to change that.
So Much Hot Air: The (Fake) China Threat Strikes Again!
Contrary to our elite media and political classes, the Chinese weather balloon was no threat to our well-being. However, the government's response to it made this a more dangerous world.
Ten Ethical Objections to the Market Economy
Murray N. Rothbard slices his way through ten of the most common value-based calumnies against the market economy. An excerpt from Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market.
How Should a Nation Determine Its Heroes?
How do societies determine who their heroes are? We know that often those seen as heroes actually made a country worse off.
Concentrate Where the Murders Are Concentrated
Progressives like to claim that "America" has a "gun violence problem." However, the "gun violence problem" happens to exist in places where progressives dominate the government.
The New Rules of Engagement
All people of goodwill have an obligation to fight the escalation of politics in American life.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
