The New Racism of the Elect
In the name of "fighting racism," a number of writers and pundits are making social relationships between people of different races and ethnic groups more contentious.
In the name of "fighting racism," a number of writers and pundits are making social relationships between people of different races and ethnic groups more contentious.
Thanks to copyright laws, the estate of Roald Dahl can not only rewrite his books, but can also essentially outlaw the old versions. Only books in the public domain are safe from this.
Canadian political, academic, and media elites "worry" that democracy in that country may be under attack. Actually, democracy works all too well there.
Secularists cheer the decline of religion in Western societies, but that loss comes at a huge cost: the decline of civilization itself.
Neo-Calvinist economic thought claims that prices and private property cause scarcity. However, they provide no methodology for their claims.
In our technocratic age, it is easy to dismiss the latest technological developments as an avenue toward freedom, but some of them still bode well for markets.
It is easy to dismiss Chinese advancements in electric vehicles as the result of government subsidies, but private entrepreneurship also is playing a major role.
Murray Rothbard was no fan of John Stuart Mill's philosophy and neither is Philip Kitcher. However, there is a huge divide in how Rothbard and Kitcher view Mill.
Opponents of "national divorce" like to claim that red states would be broke without a flood of money from wealthier, productive blue states. It's not true.
President Biden's recent call to "buy American" is doomed to failure, just like all other protectionist schemes.