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The existence of the arsenal makes the State of Israel ineligible for US aid under US law. This is a problem for US supporters of military and economic aid to the State of Israel. 

The original western values such as juridical equality, political freedom, natural rights, and religious tolerance are being co-opted into a system of “positive” rights that are socially and morally destructive.

By opposing justice and throwing aside the facts of hard science, the Duke faculty and administration damaged all of higher education during the infamous lacrosse hoax.

The process of naturalization is a government-created "right" with no basis in property rights. In other words, there is no libertarian case for birthright citizenship. 

Q: What impact did Mises University have on your career? A: It had a huge impact ... Seeing the scholarships and the opportunities that the Institute had for advancement in graduate work was encouraging to me.

For Rothbard – as for Locke – it is not the use of force that is disputable, but the use of force against peaceful and innocent people.

In a world characterized by genuine uncertainty rather than mechanical predictability, analytic reasoning provides a form of epistemic certainty that empirical observation alone cannot secure.

To call Trump’s actions king-like is to greatly understate the problem. What we actually face is a massive, self-amplifying executive branch that makes deranged presidents far more dangerous than an actual king could ever be.

Marx built part of his system on the belief that capital would create the “great reserve army of the unemployed,” and modern Marxists have made the same claim about AI. However, we are seeing AI actually enhance the value of labor, not diminish it.

Paul Schroeder (1927–2020) was generally regarded as the greatest American diplomatic historian specializing in Europe: The Transformation of European Politics, 1763–1848.