Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Declassify the Russiagate Papers!

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Here's something constructive Trump could do before leaving office at noon on January 20: he could order -- demand, insist --- that all ...
Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Why We Need a Fully Free Marketplace of Ideas

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No true seeker of truth can oppose the fully free marketplace of ideas. For details of the hardheaded practical case, you can do no better ...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Our Foolish Politicized Era

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It's ridiculous to think you can divine people's politics merely from their views on the pandemic or any given policy response to it...
Monday, October 26, 2020

How to Panic the Public

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Disseminate worst-case scenarios, taking care to ignore the dubious assumptions that go into modeling while vilifying anyone, no matter how ...

An Economy Cannot Be Crippled

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Lockdown doesn’t cripple “the economy.” It cripples people who are trying to live. Strictly speaking, there’s no economy. There are people i...

What the Love of Power Trumps

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How interesting that the people most worried about Trump’s authoritarian personality demand draconian government responses to the pandemic. ...
Sunday, October 11, 2020

Roderick Long Interviews Me, Part 2

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Friday, October 09, 2020

TGIF: Is Socialism Good in Theory?

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This is an expanded version of something I wrote for The Freeman , October 2003, during my tenure as the editor. Socialism has been mortally...
Sunday, October 04, 2020

Appearance on Agoric Cafe

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The first of my two appearances on Roderick Long's Agoric Cafe is now posted. We discuss a variety of issues. Part two will be posted ne...
Monday, September 21, 2020

The Criminal War against Iraq

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I haven't read the book yet, but I recommend this review of Robert Draper's How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq by Ja...

Stephen F. Cohen: A Rare Voice of Sanity Gone

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One of the saddest pieces of news is the death of Stephen F. Cohen at age 81. Cohen, who taught at Princeton and NYU, was an eminent scholar...
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Friday, September 18, 2020

Appearance on "Don't Tread on Anyone"

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 Keith Knight interviewed me for his video/podcast "Don't Treat Anyone." Enjoy!
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

One More Time with Tom Woods

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Tom Woods and I did another round of talking about What Social Animals Owe to Each Other .
Monday, September 14, 2020

Trump and Netanyahu's Plan B

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Trump and Netanyahu first tried to bribe the Palestinians into capitulating to the Israeli imposition. But the two men failed. So now they ...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

The Crisis in Civil Rights

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My old friend Bill Evers and the Independent Institute have assembled a useful reader's guide to the civil-rights issues of our time: ra...
Wednesday, September 09, 2020

On the Tom Woods Show

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Tom Woods and I discuss libertarian fundamentals as presented in What Social Animals Owe to Each Other on his internet program. Listen here...
Sunday, September 06, 2020

Complying with Mandates

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It's utterly conceivable that the government might mandate that we do (or not do) what we already ought (or ought not) to do, seeing as ...
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Tuesday, September 01, 2020

The Choice We Don''t Face

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Despite what some people suggest, our choice today is not between black lives and private property. Quite the contrary: respect for black li...
Monday, August 31, 2020

Unpleasant Times

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If Ludwig von Mises were alive today he would be viewing our current predicament with alarm but not surprise. He lived through something sim...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

A Question of Motives

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People who regard themselves as members of the ideological environmental movement may or may not have good science on their side in any part...