Friday, July 26, 2024

TGIF: Damn Consumers!

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Global free trade is about individual, not national, freedom—for consumers and producers who import raw materials, tools, and semi-finished ...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Restricting Production

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"At the bottom of the interventionist argument there is always the idea that the government or the state is an entity outside and above...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

"Capitalism" Is about Freedom, Not Capital

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 "Why 'capitalism'? Words have an unfortunate tendency to confuse. Free market capitalism is not really about capital, it is ab...
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Friday, July 19, 2024

TGIF: The Populist Trap

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If you care about individual freedom and general prosperity, you'll want to avoid all shades of populism like the plague. It is economic...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

Tariffs Violate Freedom

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Debate goes on over who suffers from U.S. tariffs. Biden and Trump, for example, think U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods hurt China, not America...
Friday, July 12, 2024

TGIF: Culture without Romance

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"The entire history of the human race, the rise of man from the caves, has been marked by transfers of cultural advances from one group...
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Friday, July 05, 2024

TGIF: On the Pursuit of Happiness

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The most remarkable phrase in the Declaration of Independence, whose anniversary we just celebrated, is  the pursuit of happiness. Looking ...
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Tuesday, July 02, 2024

David Tennant: Pompous, Rude Ignoramus

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British actor David Tennant showed his pompous, rude ignoramus side recently when he, in accepting an award from an “LGBT” organization, tol...
Monday, July 01, 2024

Why Limit Trans to Sex?

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"The 'transsexual male' [that is, transgender woman--SR] is indistinguishable from other males, save by his desire to be a woma...
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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