Monday, April 28, 2025

The "Ought" World

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To live is to act (because life is conditional). To act is to choose. To choose is to prefer. To prefer is to value or to pursue values. (Be...
Friday, April 25, 2025

Paine on War

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"It may with reason be said, that in the manner the English nation is represented, it signifies not where this right resides, whether i...

TGIF: More on Menger on Value

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Consumer goods are also called finished goods . The products we buy at the supermarket and other retail stores have, in less finished form, ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

The Public-School Chickens Come Home Again

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In Mahmoud v. Taylor , the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether parents of children in government schools have a constitutional right to o...
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Friday, April 18, 2025

TGIF: Menger on Trade

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Even when a line on a map separates two individuals, trade is still trade—that is, mutually beneficial cooperation. Whether the line separat...
Friday, April 11, 2025

TGIF: The Objectively Invaluable Menger

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Many people are uneasy with the free market. I think that's because they subscribe, implicitly if not explicitly, to the labor theory of...
Friday, April 04, 2025

TGIF: The Great Carl Menger

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There can be no doubt among competent historians that if ... the Austrian School has occupied an almost unique position in the development o...
Friday, March 28, 2025

TGIF: "Liberalism and Capitalism"

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Ludwig von Mises's 1927 path-breaking work in political theory speaks to the current generations. In section 5 of his introduction to Li...
Friday, March 21, 2025

TGIF: The Income Stagnation Myth

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Many people, including some free-market advocates, think Americans are materially worse off today than they were in the 1970s. Some subscrib...
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Sunday, March 16, 2025

The Abduction of Mahmoud Khalil

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The Trump administration's abduction and threatened deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old green-card holder and permanent legal r...
Friday, March 14, 2025

TGIF: Say No to a Sovereign Wealth Fund

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Donald Trump wants to create a sovereign wealth fund (SWF). It's a bad idea if your standard is freedom, free enterprise, and free mark...
Friday, March 07, 2025

TGIF: A New Washington Post?

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If Jeff Bezos is as good as his word, the advocates of full liberty will owe him a standing ovation. As everyone knows by now, Amazon.com fo...
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Thursday, March 06, 2025

Abolish Draft Registration, Mr. Trump

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During Friday's famous White House meeting, VP Vance criticized Ukrainian President Zelensky for his government's abduction of men f...
Monday, March 03, 2025

Let's Not "Run after a Share in the Trouble"

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Of course “principles,” phrases, and catch-words are always invented to bolster up any policy which anybody wants to recommend. So in this c...
Friday, February 28, 2025

TGIF: The Aim of Classical Liberalism

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These are dark days for liberalism. I mean full, across-the-board, laissez-faire free-market, classical liberalism, otherwise known as liber...
Friday, February 21, 2025

TGIF: Free the Housing Market!

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Economist Bryan Caplan has done it again. His latest graphic nonfiction book is Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regula...
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Monday, February 17, 2025

National Greatness

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“A nation which makes greatness its polestar can never be free; beneath national greatness sink individual greatness, honor, wealth and free...
Friday, February 14, 2025

TGIF: Emergency! Emergency?

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Look, as a libertarian I think the list of federal entities to be abolished soon should include the: Consumer Financial Protection Board, Fe...