Many Americans are convinced that only government can provide useful science since government is supposed to be “neutral,” not corrupted by profit seeking. However, politics corrupts science research more than anything else.
If the individual cannot keep what they earn, cannot build, cannot invest, cannot act without permission, then the income from tourism is nothing but a fleeting consumption and a steady stream of rent for the ruling class.
"...the fundamental problem with the conservatives ... was that they were looking in the wrong direction. The revolution that they were trying to prevent had already happened..."
No one opposed communism more than Murray Rothbard, but he also recognized that US policy toward Cuba was unjust, self-defeating, and would fail to accomplish the government’s stated goals of regime change.
Jamaica’s constitutional reform will achieve nothing if it continues to indulge the politics of resentment rather than building the framework for liberty.
The present US regime is far more tyrannical than the British government that supposedly was so intolerable that independence was the only way out. Perhaps it is time for another Declaration of Independence.
Free speech is not an ideological issue. As Murray Rothbard noted, it really is an issue tied to private property rights.
When the state declares war on an abstraction, it discovers the formula for perpetuity.
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho look at this week's headlines, including the prospects for the Gaza peace deal, blue state propaganda, the Jay Jones text message scandal, and an inevitable new subsidy for Obamacare.
“Science” is now indistinguishable from politics. As the “acid rain” hysteria showed back in the 1970s and 1980s, “follow the science” is just a political slogan, unrelated to actual science.
