Friday, May 16, 2025

TGIF: Individuals, Not America, First

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Let's hear no more about America First! It's a fraud, a cover for collectivist nationalism, and a distraction from what matters. (It...
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Friday, May 09, 2025

TGIF: On the Importance of Undesigned Order

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Carl Menger, the founder of the Austrian approach to economics, was not the first or last thinker to see similarities between a society and ...
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Friday, May 02, 2025

TGIF: On Value and Freedom

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To live is to act. To act is to choose. To choose is to prefer. To prefer is to pursue values—that is, to value. That's logic-guided obs...
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Monday, April 28, 2025

The "Ought" World

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To live is to act (because life is conditional). To act is to choose. To choose is to prefer. To prefer is to value or to pursue values. (Be...
Friday, April 25, 2025

Paine on War

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"It may with reason be said, that in the manner the English nation is represented, it signifies not where this right resides, whether i...

TGIF: More on Menger on Value

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Consumer goods are also called finished goods . The products we buy at the supermarket and other retail stores have, in less finished form, ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

The Public-School Chickens Come Home Again

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In Mahmoud v. Taylor , the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether parents of children in government schools have a constitutional right to o...
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Friday, April 18, 2025

TGIF: Menger on Trade

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Even when a line on a map separates two individuals, trade is still trade—that is, mutually beneficial cooperation. Whether the line separat...