Friday, September 05, 2025

TGIF: Trump and the Separation of Powers

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The U.S. Court of Appeals'  rejection last week of the Trump administration's global "emergency" tariff program was a wel...
Wednesday, September 03, 2025

Capitalism Civilizes

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"Participation in capitalist markets and bourgeois virtues has civilized the world. It has 'civilized' the world in more than o...
Friday, August 29, 2025

TGIF: The Chicanery Behind Inequality Data

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If self-described progressives decry anything more fiercely than poverty, it is income and wealth inequality. Some have even suggested that ...
Friday, August 22, 2025

TGIF: The Poverty of Poverty Data

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"Poverty has no causes; prosperity has many. As history attests, poverty is humanity’s default condition.... But prosperity is not natu...
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Friday, August 15, 2025

TGIF: Immigration Control Threatens the Rule of Law

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Immigration control strikes at the heart of the rule of law. That fact is badly unappreciated, even by some libertarians. If for no other re...
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Saturday, August 09, 2025

Immigration Control and the Rule of Law

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If you think that immigration control does not strike at the heart of the rule of law, you need to listen to this:
Friday, August 08, 2025

The Palestinians: The Libertarian Take

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Even if the Palestinians are not a People , they nevertheless are and always have been  people— that is, individual human beings with natu...

TGIF: Socialist Confusion

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Recent polls indicate that many people under 30 view socialism and communism favorably. (For Marx, those words were synonyms.) It seems that...
Friday, August 01, 2025

TGIF: By Right or Permission?

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"Trump administration approves sale of CBS parent company Paramount after concessions" — NPR If the deal struck by Paramount and P...
Friday, July 25, 2025

TGIF: What Is Capitalism?

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So, what is capitalism? The answer will depend on who's being asked. Language, like markets, basic law, and customs, is a spontaneous o...
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Friday, July 18, 2025

TGIF: Immigration and Free Association

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Immigration. Despite other headline-grabbing news, this issue persists. How could it not? Trump's masked goon squad, ICE (Immigration an...
Monday, July 14, 2025

Bryan Caplan and Me

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 I sat down recently for a chat with my old friend Bryan Caplan.
Friday, July 11, 2025

TGIF: Israel and Jabotinsky's Iron Wall

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Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was a key figure in the development of the Zionist movement, which led to the founding of Israel...
Friday, July 04, 2025

TGIF: Liberty Requires Nationwide Injunctions

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The government is always a threat. This we must never forget. In that light, I want to examine the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Trump...
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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