Progressivism

Michael talks with Gad Saad about evolutionary psychology and the market, the mind parasites, and his new book.

In the Progressive Era (1897 to 1929) the American Medical Association made an effort to restrict the supply of doctors.

In 1944, F.A. Hayek's best-selling book, The Road to Serfdom, warned the West that the "free" nations would lose their freedom as government expanded. He was right.

Forcing the minimum wage above the real market wage causes more unemployment. Small businesses suffer from these mandates as do the least productive workers. 

Modern socialism is based upon state interference in normal human relationships, economic and otherwise. It is as disastrous as the older state-planning model.

According to progressive elites, it is terrorism if consumers boycott businesses because of their leftist policies.

Kamala Harris recently declared that we need to "reduce population." While the White House quickly claimed she misspoke, progressives have given enough near-religious devotion to neo-Mathusianism to convince some of us that Harris meant what she said.

Some residents of St. Louis, fed up with the nonprotection from the city's police, have hired private security to deal with the problem. The egalitarian Left, of course, doesn't like that.

President Biden announced recently to much fanfare that his administration will transform the US economy through central planning. This does not end well.

It's fitting that the G7 recently met in Hiroshima because the policies they are following are blowing up the world economy.