Friday, October 28, 2022

TGIF: Free Markets and Greed

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"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." Ever since corporate raider Gordon Gekko, the lead character in Oliver Stone's Wa...
Friday, October 21, 2022

TGIF: Are Bosses like Rulers?

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What does the libertarian philosophy have to say about business management as an institution? Is it analogous to the state or something enti...
Friday, October 14, 2022

TGIF: Governments Create Problems; Markets Fix Them

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My article "Complete Liberalism" prompted an unexpected challenge. An interlocutor, who says he owns a business and thus is not a...
Friday, October 07, 2022

TGIF: How the State Violated Free Speech during the Pandemic

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Is anyone shocked by this observation? Public statements, emails, and recent publicly released documents establish that the President of the...
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Friday, September 30, 2022

TGIF: The Scourge of Conscription

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By now Randolph Bourne's observation that "war is the health of the state" ought to be such a cliche that it would hardly need...
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Friday, September 23, 2022

TGIF: Sam Harris on Saving Democracy from Voters

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Neuroscientist/philosopher Sam Harris caused quite a stir recently by defending the social networks' conspiracy (his word) to suppress n...
Saturday, September 17, 2022

Happy Constitution Day

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                         The real scoop.
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Friday, September 16, 2022

TGIF: Question Intuition!

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In the 1960s a popular button that New Left activists wore implored everyone to "Question Authority!" It was good advice, even tho...
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Thursday, September 15, 2022

Energy News Flash!

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Higher-income people can cope more easily with government-created soaring energy prices than lower-income people can. The state is no friend...
Friday, September 09, 2022

TGIF: Reject Both Identity and Egalitarian Politics

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The push-back against identity politics by disillusioned leftists is welcome, but the striving to replace identity with economic equality as...
Friday, September 02, 2022

TGIF: National Conservatism's Ominous Economics

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National conservatism is objectionable on many counts -- the name in itself tells you that -- but it does pay tribute to free enterprise. A ...
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Friday, August 26, 2022

TGIF: Jefferson on Not Trusting the State

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Regardless of written constitutions and the laws on the books, individual liberty is always at risk. And as liberty goes, so goes our capaci...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Talking Over the Beefed-Up IRS

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Scott Horton and I discussed the ominous changes in store for middle-income taxpayers under the Inflation Reduction Act. Listen here .
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Friday, August 19, 2022

TGIF: The Coming New and Improved IRS

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The brilliant people in the Biden administration and the U.S. Congress have decided that one thing America really needs is an Internal Reven...
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Friday, August 05, 2022

TGIF: About Those January 6 Committee Extravaganzas

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I admit it: I watched nearly every moment of the House committee extravaganzas on the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. I did more than th...
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