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Decentralization Is Not Fascism

Economic FreedomProgressivismSocialismPolitical Theory

Blog09/05/2023

Marxists and leftist progressives have falsely tried to label anything associated with capitalism and free markets as "fascism." The same goes for political decentralization.

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Mises versus Hayek on the Future of Civilization

HayekCalculation and KnowledgePhilosophy and MethodologyPolitical TheoryPraxeology

Blog09/05/2023

While F.A. Hayek is known for his term “spontaneous order,” Mises saw institutional development as coming from growth in human understanding of things.

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States Are Dying from Corruption and the Exponential

CapitalismPoliticsThe Police StateWorld History

Blog09/05/2023

The state is held together by violence and nothing else. There is no such thing as "the social contract." But even violence cannot make a state last past its time, as we saw with the USSR.

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Let Staten Island Secede!

Decentralization and Secession

Blog09/04/2023

If Staten Island is allowed to secede, our national technocrats fear that might open up countless similar demands for self-determination across the nation. For the elites, the current status quo works quite well and they want to keep it that way. 

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Physician Burnout: Another Consequence of Medical Socialism

Bureaucracy and RegulationEconomic PolicyLegal SystemSocialism

Blog09/04/2023

Obamacare's forced electronic medical recordkeeping is denying patients the care they need.

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Totalitarian Ideals and Not Living by Lies

LanguagePhilosophyProgressivismThe Police StateWorld History

Blog09/04/2023

More than forty years ago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn urged his fellow Russians “not to live by lies.” In our politicized age, his words ring truer than ever.

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Why Stabilization Policy is Destabilizing

The FedInflationMonetary PolicyU.S. Economy

Blog09/03/2023

The call for "price stabilization" was part of the recent Republican debate. Despite its attractive appearance, having the Fed try to "stabilize prices" is a very bad idea.

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The Corrupt Bargain and the Preservation of Slavery

Blog09/02/2023

Slavery was driven into the heart of the new constitution: in the three-fifths clause, in the protection of slave importation for twenty years, in the fugitive slave clause, and even in the congressional power to suppress insurrections within the states.

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