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.
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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.
It Didn’t Begin with FDR: Currency Devaluation in the Roman Empire
No matter the historical era, governments have excelled at one thing: debasing their own currency. Rome was no exception, as Roman government excesses required inflation—lots of inflation.
Real Scientific Inquiry Requires Dissent. But That’s Not What the CDC and JAMA Want.
The scientific method requires free and open dissent from any scientific hypothesis. Yet JAMA is requesting that medical boards become a new Inquisition to root out heresy and apostasy from CDC doctrines.
Governments “Sanction” Their Own Citizens Every Day. The Russia Sanctions Are Just a Natural Evolution.
The scale of the sanctions which Washington has imposed on Russia (and Russians) should not distract us from a crucial fact. What Washington is doing against Moscow is not rare. It is something that happens every day.
We Must Now Learn the Lesson of 1914, Not the Lesson of 1938.
Europe would have been immeasurably better off had its regimes chosen compromise instead of "countering aggression" in 1914. Sometimes this lesson is heeded, as when the US refused to intervene in 1956 and 1968.
Egypt Is Still Haunted By Its Ghosts of Socialism
It has been more than fifty years since Egyptian strongman Gamal Abdel Nasser died, but his unfortunate legacy of imposing socialism on Egypt still harms the nation and its economy.
Facing Unpleasant Facts: What You aren’t Supposed to say about the War in Ukraine
A funny thing has happened on the way to accepting the standard ruling-class narrative on the war in Ukraine: inconvenient and unpleasant facts about the region and its recent history.
