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Blago Is Free

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Blago's real crime wasn't trying to sell a senate seat, if he did in fact try to do that. Rather his crime was that he refused to appoint the man Obama had picked as his successor in the Senate.

Nationalism as National Liberation: Lessons from the End of the Cold War

Ryan McMaken

If we regard nationalism as necessarily harmful, we end up supporting the Soviet Union, and every empire and two-bit dictator who manages to hammer together a variety of disparate groups under a single national banner.

Why Governments Hate Secession

Ryan McMaken

States seek to perpetuate themselves by seizing more control of capital and human beings. Size makes this easier. And every regime would become a mega-state like China or the US if it could.

The Green Fatal Conceit: Why Physical Science Can’t Tell Us Proper Policy Goals

Robert P. Murphy

The so-called CLEAN Future Act is as poorly designed as its acronym. Like the Green New Deal, it consists of radical new spending proposals that the bill’s supporters would have liked for other reasons, and which aren’t even compatible.

Is Free Market Economics Too "Ideological"?

Per Bylund

Free market economics is often ignorantly dismissed for being "ideological" rather than scientific. It probably sounds smart to the economically illiterate, but it is decidedly not.

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