The “woke left” and “woke right” are lumped together as two types of “woke.” But it is intellectually lazy and obscures truth to identify all opponents as the same because of superficial similarities.
President Trump’s attempts to remake federal agencies has generated fierce opposition from progressives, who believe that government led by experts can solve most of our problems. Reality tells us something different.
San Francisco politicians have made it so difficult to build new housing that a black market for apartments has emerged.
Mark Thornton reviews Thomas Piketty's A Brief History of Equality. The book is the siren song of communism: “economic justice” without any cost or noteworthy harm to society. In reality Piketty's solutions are implicitly violent and destructive.
Charlie Kirk blames cannabis for social decay, but Mark Thornton shows it’s Progressive policies, not personal liberty, that fuel addiction, welfare dependence, and urban breakdown.
Since the Progressive Era, American foreign policy has seen one military intervention after another, leading to disastrous consequences. Historian Charles A. Beard understood the dangers and futility associated with these interventionist policies.
On this episode of Power and Market, the roundtable talks about a new brewing scandal involving the Fed, revisits the conversation on nationalizing Washington, DC, and the new "golden age" of the Smithsonian.
When the legal scholar Richard Posner labeled Critical Race Theory as having a “lunatic core,” he was echoing what Ludwig von Mises years before had written about polylogism. Unfortunately, CRT now dominates the nation‘s law school curriculum.
One cannot deny that American institutions have been corrupted by leftist thought, which demonstrates the success of Italian communist Antonio Gramsci's call to bring about socialism in the West by eroding the institutional barriers against it.
One cannot deny that American institutions have been corrupted by leftist thought, which demonstrates the success of Italian communist Antonio Gramsci's call to bring about socialism in the West by eroding the institutional barriers against it.
