Friday, December 31, 2021

TGIF: Pursue Your Happiness and Forget the Rest

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How about we do something novel in the new year? Let's stop worrying about the stuff most politicians, pundits, and activists want us to...
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Thursday, December 30, 2021

Feelings and Explanations

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We frequently conflate feelings with explanations of feelings. It's important that we not do that.  From the fact that people are infal...
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Friday, December 17, 2021

TGIF: Double-Rigging of the Auto Market

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U.S. government interference with our lives often resembles a Russian matryoshka doll: regulation is nested in more regulation. Take the pro...
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Friday, December 10, 2021

TGIF: Joe Biden, Let's Not Go to War with Russia

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Here's a good idea: let's not go to war against Russia. Let's not even rattle a saber at Russia (or China, for that matter) beca...
Friday, December 03, 2021

TGIF: Safety in Freedom

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With the emergence of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, renewed restrictions on liberty or calls for their reinstatement have broken out around ...
Friday, November 26, 2021

TGIF: Racial Polarization Is Poison

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Be they "left" or "right," those who agitate for racial polarization seem to have no sense of the harm they could do to ...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

"Coming to Palestine" Discussed on Podcast

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I discussed my Libertarian Institute book Coming to Palestine   on the podcast The Enragés (a project under the auspices of the Center for ...
Friday, November 19, 2021

TGIF: Rigged Political Language

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It's an old trick: gain advantage over others by hiding one's meaning behind euphemisms and other forms of linguistic camouflage and...
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Friday, November 12, 2021

TGIF: Equal Rights Now!

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A pet peeve of mine is the distinction, drawn even by some market enthusiasts, between so-called personal liberty (or civil liberties) and e...
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Friday, November 05, 2021

TGIF: Another Climate Conference

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Sometimes we've got to be grateful for hypocrisy. If those who pretend to be world leaders actually delivered a fraction of what they pr...
Friday, October 29, 2021

TGIF: The Challenging Art of Persuasion

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Anyone who hopes for a peaceful pro-liberty intellectual revolution is interested in the art of persuasion. But is it a practical art? Can e...
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Friday, October 22, 2021

TGIF: That Bloody Government Debt

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The government's attraction to borrowing is hardly a mystery. If the politicians had to extract every dollar they wanted to spend direct...
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Friday, October 15, 2021

TGIF: Inflation Is Evil

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When will Americans demand that the government denationalize money and free the market to do what it does better than anything else: serve ...
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Friday, October 08, 2021

TGIF: Looking for the Green New Deal

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I was all set this week to plunge into the details of the Green New Deal so I could see what new impositions the climate-alarmist politician...
Friday, October 01, 2021

TGIF: Why "Science Denial"?

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In a new book two professors of psychology, Gale Sinatra and Barbara Hofer, seek to explain why what they call "science denial" i...
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Friday, September 24, 2021

TGIF: Beware the Government-"Science" Complex

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The government-"science" complex ostensibly promotes the search for facts about our world, but it actually promotes and enforces o...
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