Love, Fear, and the Law of Good Intentions
Today, progressives govern by the law of good intentions, and when government has good intentions, the results, no matter how disastrous, don't matter.
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A Brief History of Pundits Encouraging Nuclear War
Today's advocates of escalation in Ukraine are embracing an updated version of "Better dead than Red." They think themselves fit to decide for countless millions what's worth dying in a nuclear holocaust for.
The Statist “Solution” Really Is a Non Sequitur
All too often, people accept the state-sponsored "solution" to a perceived problem as the logical choice. But this "solution" really is a non sequitur.
The West’s Russia Sanctions Show Why States Want to Weaponize the Financial System
States continue to seek new ways to make the financial system an “economic chokepoint” enabling the state to crack down on specific organizations, individuals, or activities.
Will Biden Sanction Half the World to Isolate Russia?
The United States is no longer in any position to remake the world in its image. It's not 1945 or even 1970. Yet the US seems to be gearing up to bully half the world into compliance with the US Russia sanctions.
End the Fed and Get More Doritos
Another gift of the inflationary Fed: Frito-Lay recently began putting fewer chips in a bag of Doritos, reducing the weight of a bag about five percent from 9.75 ounces to 9.25 ounces in the process.
A Manufactured World Crisis
We don't have a duty to evaluate every foreign quarrel and assess who is at fault. We do not have a duty to require leaders of regimes we don’t like to accept existing boundaries of countries as unchangeable.
Dr. Thomas Szasz’s Campaign against Psychiatric Coercion and the “Therapeutic State”
The late Dr. Thomas Szasz, who was well known to libertarians, believed using coercion to treat psychiatric patients was a form of torture. He left a legacy of freedom in a profession that has all but abandoned liberty.
Markets and Private Property, Not Government, Protect the Environment
Standard beliefs say that government protects our natural environment while the market system destroys it. Economic analysis gives a much different perspective.
How Agriculture Bureaucrats Are Manipulating Food Prices—and Our Diets
The agriculture industry is largely running as a planned economy. When the power to make decisions is delegated to bureaucrats rather than to those impacted, mismanagement is a given.
