Higher education has managed to con huge numbers of young people to take out six-figure loans in order to have the “college experience.” However, the so-called benefits to college are turning out to be a chimera, all funded by increasing indebtedness.
In the wake of the shooting of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, Dr. Keith Smith explains why US health care is so expensive and how to fix it.
Ralph Raico presents the fundamental political problem of the twentieth century, which remains our fundamental political problem today: How can war—given its appalling destruction—be avoided?
William Rawle was a well-respected lawyer, legal scholar, an abolitionist, and a believer in the right of states to secede. He described this in A View of the Constitution of the United States of America, which many claimed to have read while at West Point prior to the Civil War.
Ryan McMaken, Tho Bishop, and Zachary Yost discuss the theory of international realism and its application to the military actions of the Russian state in Ukraine and Georgia.
With the fall of Bashir Assad‘s government, Syria becomes yet another victim to the grand plans of American and European foreign policy elites. As we saw in Iraq after the US invasion, there will be no happy ending for the Syrians.
Much of the failure of American schools is due to the adherence to a flawed system of teaching students how to read. Homeschoolers often don‘t seem to have that problem, and there is a good reason why.
Many people were puzzled why so many WNBA players were hostile to the arrival of superstar Caitlin Clark. After all, they reasoned, Clark would make the league more popular, bringing more money and publicity. Austrian economics, however, shows a logical explanation for the hostility to her.
Moscow’s behavior in the international realm is that of a conservative and defensive realist great power, far from being a Hitlerish regime bent on global conquest.
Bitcoin is many things to people and it certainly has developed into a valuable asset. It also has been used as a medium of exchange. But is it money? According to Austrian economics, the answer is “no.” At least not yet.
