Many libertarians, like Marx, are focused on economic freedom as the means to deliver liberty for all. Gramsci knew better, and he offers a lesson for libertarians who believe that broader cultural questions beyond the nonaggression principle are irrelevant for liberty.
"Public health crisis" is essentially a left-wing stock phrase at this point, as is reflected by the fact that the solutions proffered to the social ills in question are virtually always some sort of government regulation or income redistribution scheme.
False positives and false negatives remain a very large problem. Our current testing regime has alarmed the planet without contributing a health benefit.
Murray Rothbard explains that anarcho-communists' longing for a preindustrial primitivism would mean starvation and death for nearly all of mankind and a grinding subsistence for the ones remaining.
Every major scientific advance challenged the “settled science” of its day and was often denounced as pernicious and false, even dangerous.
The forces of anticapitalism have long latched on to whatever best suits them for pushing their agenda. Whatever the latest injustice may be—from a polluted environment to poverty to racism—the solution is always the end of capitalism.
As Japan has shown, ultralow interest rates can greatly affect a society that was once impressively focused on innovation and investment.
Dr. Rohin Francis joins Accad and Koka for a wide ranging discussion on racism in medicine, COVID in Britain, and how minority groups have fared in Britain.
Henry David Thoreau left behind many great admonitions. Alas, philosophical gems are not legal tender when rent is due.
