Friday, April 30, 2021

TGIF: Bust the Conservative "Trust Busters"

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When right-wing leader Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) recently declared that "liberty and monopoly do not go together," I fantasized tha...
Friday, April 23, 2021

TGIF: Does Nearly Everyone Favor Industrial Policy?

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Over the years I've heard countless arguments about which word best describes the American economic system. Some insist it is essentiall...
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Friday, April 16, 2021

TGIF: Should Libertarians Join Organizations?

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A few weeks ago YouTube suggested that I watch a 1988 episode of William F. Buckley's PBS TV show, "Firing Line," featuring R...
Friday, April 09, 2021

TGIF: The Fraught World of Second-Bests

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When discussion turns to how to make government "better," however any particular person would conceive that condition, libertarian...
Friday, April 02, 2021

TGIF: Targeted Advertising Violates No Liberty

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Last week I modestly attempted to show that no injustice takes place when A sells B the opportunity to pitch its product to C. This is the ...
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Friday, March 26, 2021

TGIF: The Bias against Advertising

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People who dislike markets harbor a special animosity toward advertising as cynically controlling. This is not new. In the mid-20th century ...
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Friday, March 19, 2021

TGIF: What's Wrong with the Welfare State

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Let's start with what is not  wrong with the welfare state. Much criticism of the welfare state focuses on how it encourages dependence ...
Friday, March 12, 2021

TGIF: U(nspeakably) S(adistic) Foreign Policy

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If you had set out to construct a foreign policy designed to impose indescribable suffering on millions of innocent people around the world,...
Friday, March 05, 2021

TGIF: That Old Minimum-Wage Magic

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You don't have to actually think that legislating and raising the minimum wage will help low-skilled workers earn more money. That's...
Thursday, March 04, 2021

Individual, Not National, Self-Determination Should Be the Goal

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Jeff Halper , the American-born, Israel-based veteran human-rights activist is heroic. He has dedicated his life to working for justice for ...
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...