Friday, June 25, 2021

TGIF: Liberty as a Problem-Solving Process

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Strictly speaking, liberty isn't the solution to problems. It's what creates the framework in which solutions can be discovered. Tha...
Friday, June 18, 2021

TGIF: Is "Free Election" an Oxymoron?

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American leaders and their loyal media pundits love to sit in judgment of other countries' election, declaring them fair or rigged accor...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Decentralized Revolution Appearance

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I discussed Israel-Palestine with Aaron Harris on the Mises Caucus's Decentralized Revolution podcast. Watch and listen here .
Friday, June 11, 2021

TGIF: VP Tells Guatemalans to Stay in Their Place

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Shame on Vice President Kamala Harris. On her recent trip to Guatemala she said , "I want to be clear to folks in the region who are th...
Friday, June 04, 2021

TGIF: What the Really State Is

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To better understand the nature of government, one can think of it as an agency that sells or, more precisely, rents power to others. The gr...
Friday, May 28, 2021

TGIF: About that "Real Estate Dispute" in Sheikh Jarrah

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When the Israeli government describes the conflict over the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem as just a "real-estate dispute...
Saturday, May 22, 2021

Hamas, Israel, and the United States

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For obvious reasons, I cannot endorse Hamas's firing projectiles at residential centers in Israel. But if is wrong to terrorize Israeli ...
Friday, May 21, 2021

Discussing Israel-Palestine on Year Zero

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 I discussed what's going on in Israel-Palestine on the  Year Zero podcast. Have a listen .

TGIF: Biden Labor Department Undermines Gig Economy

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Why should government at any level have the power to overrule how workers and companies define their relationships? This question has become...
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Friday, May 14, 2021

Palestine/Israel Erupts Again

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 In  Coming to Palestine I defended, from a libertarian perspective, the Palestinians against Israeli/Zionist oppression. I am reluctant to...
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TGIF: FDA Targets Black and Other Minority Smokers

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Just when we are reminded that unnecessary conflict between the police and the people, especially in poorer black communities, is a poison t...
Friday, May 07, 2021

TGIF: A Refreshing Way to Think about Immigration

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What I'm going to say about Chandran Kukathas's latest book, Immigration and Freedom , does not constitute a book review. Think of i...
Wednesday, May 05, 2021

Announcement

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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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