Friday, June 28, 2024

TGIF: No Cheers for Decolonization(R)

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How can a libertarian oppose decolonization? Colonization not only oppressed conquered peoples, as the staunchest early classical liberals ...
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Wednesday, June 26, 2024

The Law of Identity is Rubbish

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Not that law of identity. A is A is not rubbish. It's still good. I'm talking about a new law of identity: each of us has an inner ...
Friday, June 21, 2024

TGIF: What Free Market in Health Care?

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Federal Health-Care Industry Lobbying Leads the Pack Contrary to a popular article of faith, America has no free market in health care—far f...
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Friday, June 14, 2024

It's a Crazy World

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What's to be said about people who grieve over the deaths of Palestinian children in Gaza at the hands of the U.S.-backed Israeli milita...
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TGIF: "We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us"

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The famous line "We have met the enemy and he is us" is from Walt Kelly's comic strip, Pogo . Kelly adapted the line from a U....
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Saturday, June 08, 2024

David Boaz, an Anecdote

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When my second daughter, Emily, was born some years ago, a friend of the family gave her a gift: a stuffed blue bear. That's it up there...
Friday, June 07, 2024

David Boaz (1953-2024)

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With great sadness I note the passing of David Boaz today, June 7, 2024, at age 70. He had been ill for some time. He was a good man and a g...

TGIF: Freedom or Power

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Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, the Austrian-school economist who learned from Carl Menger and taught Ludwig von Mises, speaks to the ages. We ignore...
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Thursday, June 06, 2024

What Inequality?

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According to research conducted by Phil Gramm, the late Robert Ekelund, and John Early, documented in The Myth of American Inequality: How G...

Immigration Talk

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I talk about immigration with Michael Liebowitz of The Rational Egoist .
Wednesday, June 05, 2024

Language, Race, and Man

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"Man belongs neither to his language nor to his race; he belongs to himself." --Ernest Renan
Tuesday, June 04, 2024

Democracy and Free Stuff

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Democracy: the matching up of people who want free stuff with politicians who promise free stuff. Problem: free stuff as they all imagine it...
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Monday, June 03, 2024

Nation, Race, and Individual

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"Nation and race do not coincide; there is no nation of pure blood. All peoples have arisen from a mixture of races.... "[T]he con...
Sunday, June 02, 2024

History and Peace

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 "[E]very person must take his life and every nation must take its history as it comes; nothing is more useless than complaining over e...
Saturday, June 01, 2024

History and Conflict

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"We cannot eradicate the past from our memories. But it is not the task of history to kindle new conflicts by reviving hatreds long sin...
Friday, May 31, 2024

TGIF: Government Undermines Civilization

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The good, great, and prosperous society depends on ever-widening trust among strangers. It's not blind trust -- ways to hedge against ch...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Economics in One Other Lesson

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"The number one principle of economics...: the secret of mass consumption is mass production.... What about distribution? Here's wh...
Friday, May 24, 2024

TGIF: The Economic Is Personal

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Contrary to accepted doctrine, we have no grounds for regarding so-called economic liberties as less important or less worthy of protection ...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2024

This Is the State

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Friday, May 17, 2024

TGIF: The Nonsense of Statist Political Economy

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In the video "How Capitalism Makes You Less Free ," self-described Marxist Grace Blakeley, author of Vulture Capitalism: Corporat...