Friday, February 12, 2021

TGIF: What Now, Libertarians?

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The prospects for individual liberty and the required rollback of the government seem as bleak as ever, but we can't let appearances, no...
Friday, February 05, 2021

TGIF: Imperial America, Which Never Left, Is Back

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In a cliche-ridden foreign-policy speech delivered at the State Department on Thursday, President Joe Biden declared that "America is b...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Hot off the Press! Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism

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  It my supreme pleasure to announce the availability of Scott Horton's great new book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism...
Wednesday, January 13, 2021

A Defense of the Peaceful Transfer of War-Making Power

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Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausevitz famously said that "war is a continuation of politics by other means." ...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Why Politics Is So Acrimonious

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If we wish to understand what's wrong with today's politics, we ought to consider something F. A. Hayek pointed out long ago. It sho...
Monday, January 11, 2021

No Sacred Ground

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The coverage of the riot at the U.S. Capitol last week was annoying to say the least -- what went on was no insurrection or attempted coup; ...
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Tuesday, December 08, 2020

Government's Perverse Incentives

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It might seem reasonable to think that in the early days of a pandemic involving an unfamiliar pathogen, the public ought to allow the gover...
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Thursday, December 03, 2020

Podcast Interview on the Constitution

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Aaron Keith Harris and I discussed America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited  on the LP Mises Caucus podcast, Decentraliz...
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!