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How War Propaganda Has Fueled American Foreign Policy...

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2025/05/15

Isn’t it funny how, with the possible exception of Vietnam, all of America’s wars have been justified and have been right and good? What are the odds?

Trump Budget Plan Makes No Spending Cuts Until 2028

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2025/05/15

All potentially unpopular cuts will hit only after 2026 or 2028. This is proof Trump was never serious about any real spending cuts. These cuts will never actually happen.

A History of Political Theory in the West

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2025/05/15

Political Scientist Joseph Solis-Mullen joins Ryan McMaken to review Ralph Raico's newly published lectures on politics in the West. We recommend this book for all who want a pro-freedom history of political thought.

Courageous Followership and the Fight Against...

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2025/05/15

The powerful critiques of Mises and Hayek against centralized authority and their staunch defense of individual liberty offer essential lessons for followers navigating the ethical dilemmas of modern institutions and governments.

How Trump Can Lower Drug Prices Without Price Controls

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2025/05/14

While Trump has not yet turned to price controls to address America‘s absurdly high drug prices, Monday‘s executive order suggests that he soon may. Price controls would only worsen the problem with the drug market. Here are three things he can do instead.

USAID's Legacy of Failure

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2025/05/14

Progressive supporters of USAID claim that the agency does vital work overseas to provide medical care and other necessities for the poorest of the poor. Yet, a careful look at its record reveals that USAID often is a hindrance to the very people it claims to help.

Tariffs Won’t Ever Be "Optimal"

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2025/05/14

Despite arguments from President Trump and his supporters, there is no such thing as an “optimal” tariff. If anything, Americans have the upper hand in trade because they can run large trade deficits due to the status of the US dollar as the world‘s reserve currency.

How Trump Can Lower Drug Prices Without Price Controls

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2025/05/14

While Trump has not yet turned to price controls to address America‘s absurdly high drug prices, Monday‘s executive order suggests that he soon may.

A Closer Scrutiny of Affirmative Action (Reservation)...

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2025/05/14

India has the longest history of affirmative action programs in the world and they have become the center of heated controversy between two clashing viewpoints.

The Tragedy of War

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2025/05/13

There are no “good wars,” rather, there are wars with varying degrees of destructiveness. The American War Between the States was especially destructive, and the scars have not fully healed 160 years after it ended.

Wealth Generation and the Market Economy

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2025/05/13

A free market economy does not generate jobs or money. Instead, it creates wealth through exchange and production. Government intervention, contrary to what mainstream economists believe, does not enhance wealth, but instead destroys it.

The Salem Witch Tariffs: How Economic Witch Hunts...

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2025/05/13

As the progressive left and the anti-trade right merge their arguments, the current political atmosphere is quickly turning into a witch hunt. Unfortunately, we know that these situations don't end well.

The Classical Liberals Were Radical Opponents of War...

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2025/05/13

Extolling peace has characterized the classical liberal movement from the eighteenth century, at least from Turgot, on through the nineteenth century to Ludwig von Mises.

The Dehumanizing Nature of Tariffs

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2025/05/13

Any government deploying this so-called policy tool is trespassing upon property rights. As a result, human beings are in a word: dehumanized.

Explaining the Quirks in the GDP Report

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2025/05/12

Bob Murphy digs into the latest GDP numbers, questions Peter St. Onge’s optimistic spin, and shows what the data really says about tariffs, trade, and recession fears.

Jordan Peterson and the Real “Dark Tetrad”

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2025/05/12

Peterson implies the “dark tetrad” is emerging on the non-interventionist right, cloaking their real intentions with conservative rhetoric. Interestingly, however, a historical parallel exists in neoconservatism, whose intellectual roots are deeply rooted in Machiavellianism.

Wealth Generation and the Market Economy

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2025/05/12

Don’t Be A Panican, But Question Government Shenanigans

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2025/05/12

Ours in an age when people panic, sometimes for good reasons but often for bad. Governments benefit from panicked citizenry, which is why we always should question those political decisions that can turn our lives upside down.

Schumpeter on the Dangers of the "Tax State"

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2025/05/12

The modern state, unlike the medieval monarchy, does not merely tax to sustain itself or to defend the nation. It taxes to reshape society and to manage an increasingly restive population.

US taxpayers are tiring of paying for the State of...

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2025/05/12

A Gallup survey taken in March this year found only 46% of Americans expressed support for Israel (the lowest level in 25 years of Gallup's annual tracking).

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