Friday, June 27, 2025

TGIF: The US Empire's 72-Year War on Iran

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The likely temporary Israel-Iran ceasefire notwithstanding, if you need proof of how despicable Donald Trump is, consider this: When asked l...
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Friday, June 20, 2025

TGIF: This Is America First

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The Trump battle cry is America First . Revealingly, it is not Americans First . The former signifies, implicitly if not explicitly, nationa...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Be Careful What You Ask for

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You wanted America First. You got it. Did you think it wouldn't be conceived in national collectivist terms? The clue's in the name....
Monday, June 16, 2025

Phony Noninterventionists

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Call me naive, but I increasingly suspect that much of today's "left" is not antiwar on principle. Rather, it's anti-Ameri...
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Friday, June 13, 2025

TGIF: Magna Carta Day

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I wrote this in 2015 to mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta , or Great Charter. In light of current events—featuring a president who a...
Sunday, June 08, 2025

Benevolence

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I don't understand why conventional moralists often see benevolence and self-interest as being at odds. Living--action in pursuit of lif...
Friday, June 06, 2025

TGIF: On "Public Property"

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A dubious theory held by some libertarians has been knocking about. It goes something like this: The claim that government-controlled land i...
Wednesday, June 04, 2025

Immigration Conversation with Jacob Hornberger

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Friday, May 30, 2025

Some Recent Social Media Posts

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(Check back periodically to see what I've added.) If the choice is between a welfare state and a police state (I despise both), I know w...
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TGIF: The Worst Are Already on Top

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After Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made a fool of herself by defining habeas corpus as "a constitutional right that the pr...
Friday, May 23, 2025

TGIF: Maestro Trump and Drug Prices

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When encountering a public problem, people tend to fall into one of two camps: one camp, the larger one, says, "There oughta be a law....
Friday, May 16, 2025

TGIF: Individuals, Not America, First

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Let's hear no more about America First! It's a fraud, a cover for collectivist nationalism, and a distraction from what matters. (It...
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Friday, May 09, 2025

TGIF: On the Importance of Undesigned Order

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Carl Menger, the founder of the Austrian approach to economics, was not the first or last thinker to see similarities between a society and ...
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Friday, May 02, 2025

TGIF: On Value and Freedom

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To live is to act. To act is to choose. To choose is to prefer. To prefer is to pursue values—that is, to value. That's logic-guided obs...
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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, ...