Politics

Over the centuries, European governments have driven talented workers out of their countries. That unfortunate legacy continues as France is the latest nation facing a “brain drain.”

Henry Hazlitt wrote in Economics in One Lesson that each generation has to relearn economic fallacies that government employs when implementing bad policies. New Yorkers are about to learn a lot of new lessons.

For more than 60 years, the US government has enforced a trade embargo against Cuba, ostensibly to force the communist government into collapse. The only thing that has collapsed, however, is the logic in the US policy.

For more than 60 years, the US government has enforced a trade embargo against Cuba, ostensibly to force the communist government into collapse. The only thing that has collapsed, however, is the logic in the US policy.

The central philosophy of progressivism is that we should be governed by so-called experts. What happens, however, when the “experts” are just plain wrong?

The US Constitution as originally written and understood no longer exists. The first wave of “progressives” reinterpreted it to their liking before later generations of progressives finished the job.

The US Constitution as originally written and understood no longer exists. The first wave of “progressives” reinterpreted it to their liking before later generations of progressives finished the job.

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..."