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The Results Are In: Free Market Capitalism Improves...

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2024/05/15

Contrary to the drumbeat from political, media, and academic elites, capitalism improves the lives of ordinary people. Socialism receives favorable publicity but fails wherever it is implemented.

Beware of the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act

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2024/05/15

Should calling attention to war crimes be punishable by jail? You don’t have to be a libertarian to recognize that we can’t have a free society under the censorship this Act would impose.

The Hush-Money Case against Trump Is Ridiculous and...

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2024/05/15

Despite the media definitions of the Trump trial as a “hush money trial,” the actual criminal charges are contrived and legally unprecedented. This is a show trial.

Christian Worship of the False God of Politics

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2024/05/14

Millions of American “evangelical” Christians have been convinced they must be worshipful of Israeli politicians and bureaucrats. Hence the spectacle of evangelical Christians cheerleading the killing of fellow Christians in Gaza by the Israeli state.

Order without the State: Lessons from Marjorie Kinnan...

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2024/05/14

Do we need government to referee all of our property disputes? Throughout history, people have peacefully resolved disputes without the help of state authorities.

No, Milei Is Not a Fascist

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2024/05/14

Despite the accusations that Javier Milei is a fascist in libertarian clothes, many of his reforms have been successful in reversing some of the damage done to Argentina's economy by real fascists.

State Coercion and the Injustice of Apartheid

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2024/05/14

In publicly opposing apartheid, William H. Hutt saw how legal segregation kept black South Africans from pursuing legitimate economic goals. To Hutt, apartheid deprived people of equality of economic opportunity, which kept them in poverty.

Can There Be an Alliance between Austrian and...

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2024/05/14

While Austrian and feminist critiques of neoclassical economics have some similarities, they also differ strongly on important points. Feminist critiques are based upon what Mises called polylogism, while Austrian critiques are based upon praxeology.

What Can Carl Menger Teach Us about Falafel Sandwiches?

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2024/05/14

What better way to explain the relationship between higher-order and lower-order goods than with food? Here, we look at the falafel sandwich.

The TikTok Ban Is the Next Patriot Act

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2024/05/14

Congress claims to have targeted TikTok because China's government allegedly uses it to spy on Americans. Besides dealing with a nonexistent threat, the bill gives the federal government vast new powers to misuse.

Free-Market Profit Comes From Voluntary Exchange, not...

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2024/05/14

Progressives claim that profits are an unjust transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. In reality, entrepreneurs earn profits by directing resources from less valued to more valued uses to satisfy consumer needs.

Somaliland Needs Self-Determination

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2024/05/14

Somalia is a country invented by European intervention. The region known as Somaliland ought to be free to secede from this imperialist creation.

The American Labor Market: Fact vs. Fiction

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2024/05/14

Progressive historians, journalists, and politicians claim that the Industrial Revolution and the growth of industry brought poverty and exploitation to American workers. The truth is much different, even if it is rarely heard.

Thinking Properly about Public Welfare

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2024/05/14

For most Americans, the debate is about what size the welfare state should be. But why is there a welfare state at all?

Will the Fed Lose Control?

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2024/05/14

The government’s excessive spending and debt is leading to what some economists call “fiscal dominance.” Fiscal dominance occurs when a central bank must prioritize monetizing ever higher levels of government debt.

Orwell's America

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2024/05/14

New York and California have become the dark dystopia Orwell described in 1984. Why does anyone stay?

War Hysteria Fuels New Attacks on Free Speech

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2024/05/14

Unfortunately, these assaults on the First Amendment continue to find support even among people who pretend to be in support of freedom and opposed to federal power.

How State-Sponsored Universities Distort Campus Activism

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2024/05/04

Connor O'Keeffe joins Bob to discuss the recent antisemitism bill and why we should be defunding universities.

State Coercion and the Injustice of Apartheid

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2024/05/04

In publicly opposing Apartheid, William H. Hutt saw how legal segregation deprived black South Africans from pursuing legitimate economic goals. To Hutt, Apartheid deprived people of equality of economic opportunity, which kept them in poverty.

Public Schools and the State’s Omnipotent Bayonet

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2024/05/04

Vast sums are spent on “reforming” government schools, only to end up with the same lousy product. Thinking outside the box means abandoning public schools altogether.

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