Friday, June 30, 2023

TGIF: "America First" Need Not Be Antiwar

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Today's Trump-inspired "America First" faction cannot be counted on to be consistently noninterventionist and antiwar. That it...
Friday, June 23, 2023

TGIF: Foreign Policy Matters

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In an extra special way, foreign policy matters crucially to champions of individual liberty. Not that it doesn't matter to other people...
Friday, June 16, 2023

TGIF: Markets Clean Up

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Donald Boudreaux, a professor of economics at George Mason University, has been a great defender of individual liberty for a long time. One ...
Friday, June 09, 2023

TGIF: Condemning Tyranny Abroad and War

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Can foreign-policy noninterventionists publicly criticize foreign tyrannies without giving credence to the war party? Yes -- if they try. At...
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Friday, June 02, 2023

TGIF: Immigration and Liberty

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Forbidding freedom of movement to aspiring migrants strikes at the liberty not only of those individuals but also of citizens and legal resi...
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Friday, May 26, 2023

TGIF: The Knowledge that Only Free Markets Disclose

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As a follow-up to my recent article about F. A. Hayek's classic article "The Use of Knowledge in Society" (1945), I thought i...
Friday, May 19, 2023

TGIF: No One Has a Right to Make Immigration Policy

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says "no one has a right to immigrate" to the United States. "We determine as Americans," he ...
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Friday, May 12, 2023

TGIF: Ducking Hayek

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May 8 marked the 124th anniversary of the birth of F. A. Hayek, the 1974 Nobel-winning economist of the Austrian school. (He died in 1992.) ...
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Friday, May 05, 2023

TGIF: Abolish Billionaires?

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Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to abolish billionaires. You read that right. He says he'd confiscate 100 percent of people's money above ...
Friday, April 28, 2023

TGIF: Markets and the Pursuit of Happiness

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For some time now I've thought that many people's antagonism to the market is motivated not by moral or economic objections but by a...
Friday, April 21, 2023

TGIF: Politics Corrupts Money

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Money does not corrupt politics. Politics corrupts money. Politics as we know it is inherently corrupt; it's the way to select governmen...
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Friday, April 14, 2023

TGIF: Has Libertarianism Passed Its Sell-By Date?

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Ron DeSantis, who could be the next president of the United States, made his views frighteningly clear : "We understand that freedom is...
Friday, April 07, 2023

TGIF: Let's NOT Go to War with China

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The word that strikes fear in the power elite is China . It's not fear of an existential threat; rather it's fear that America is be...
Thursday, April 06, 2023

Conversation on Bro History Podcast

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I had a great conversation on Zionism, antisemitism, and the Palestine question with Henry Szamota and Danny Abdeljabbar on the Bro History ...
Monday, April 03, 2023

Interview on Agora: The Podcast

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I was recently interviewed by the hosts of Agora: The Podcast. We talked about the political landscape, my own political development over 50...
Friday, March 17, 2023

TGIF: Beware of All Tribalism

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Tribalism is bad. Sensible people will know what I mean by tribe . It's not a club based on some common preference like stamp collecting...
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