Pre-Columbian America Wasn’t Exactly a Paradise of Freedom
The story of the Americas as the violent “pacifying” and corralling of free indigenous peoples by white outsiders erases the long history of statism in many areas of the New World.
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Don’t Expect Foreign Policy Experts to be Held Accountable for Afghanistan
Until there’s a new foreign policy class informed by an outlook of restraint, no kind of punishment or demotion of those who prosecuted the bungled wars of the past few decades should be expected.
The UK’s National “Crisis”: Age-Adjusted Mortality Is at 2008 Levels
Age-adjusted mortality in the UK rose in 2020 to the same level last experienced in 2008. Yet the government declared no national health crisis in those years.
Billionaire Plutocrat Jamie Dimon Wants to Ditch the Debt Ceiling
Deficit spending—which begets inflationary monetary policy—has been a boon for the financial sector and its billionaires. Naturally, bank CEOs would love to get rid of the debt ceiling.
What the New Nobel Winners Get Wrong about Economics
The new Nobel winners apparently think we can discover economic laws by crunching numbers. That's not how it works.
Polygamy Is a Problem for Economic Development
Research reveals that in sub-Saharan Africa children in polygamous families are 24.4 times more likely to die when compared with children in monogamous families.
We’re Living in a Chaos Economy. Here’s How to End It.
The chaos economy we're witnessing is not the fault of the market economy. Rather prices in some areas of the economy need to rise so high and so fast to harmonize supply and demand that entrepreneurs can hardly keep pace.
Why Today’s Abusers of the Scientific Method Are So Dangerous
It is, ironically, antiscience to ever declare that science is settled. Since man is not omniscient, the future will forever remain unknown, and more data can always falsify current scientific laws.
The US’s Fantastical Foreign Policy: Sowing the Seeds of Failure
After 9/11, the security establishment was giddy about embarking on a global democratic crusade against any nation that did not submit to the US’s liberal hegemonic order.
The CIA Has Stultified American Consciences
Anyone with a conscience can easily see that assassinating Julian Assange would be just plain murder. Yet, the reaction to all this from the mainstream press has been one great big collective yawn.
