A Nanny State Idiocracy by John W. Whitehead May 24, 2024 “Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military.”—Simone Weil, ...
What President Biden’s Tax Return Tells Us about Social Security by Laurence M. Vance May 22, 2024 President Biden has released his latest federal tax return, the one for tax year 2023. He has released the most tax ...
Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian Theory of Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle, Part 3 by Richard M. Ebeling May 20, 2024 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 When the English-language edition of Ludwig von Mises’s The Theory of Money and Credit was ...
Social Justice Fallacies by George Leef May 15, 2024 Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell (Basic Books, 2023) Now 93, Thomas Sowell continues to produce excellent work — work that would ...
America Needs a Great Reset by Laurence M. Vance May 10, 2024 For several years now, and especially since the beginning of the COVID-19 “pandemic” fiasco, we have been told that the world needs a “great ...
The Steady Slide Towards Tyranny by John W. Whitehead May 8, 2024 “As I look at America today, I am not afraid to say that I am afraid.”—Former presidential advisor Bertram Gross The American governmental scheme is ...
Drug-War Obtuseness in Mexico by Jacob G. Hornberger May 23, 2024 In the final debate between Mexico’s two leading presidential candidates, Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez, before the June 2 election, both candidates vied with each other as to which one would be a stronger drug warrior. Both of them vowed to smash the violent drug cartels that dominate Mexican society. It would be difficult to find a better example of obtuseness than that. ...
Closer to Nuclear War by Jacob G. Hornberger May 17, 2024 I can’t help but wonder what proponents of America’s participation in the old Cold War dinosaur known as NATO are thinking about NATO officials who are contemplating sending NATO military personnel into Ukraine to train Ukrainian troops in their war against Russia. Those who relish the idea of nuclear war between the United States and Russia undoubtedly must be ecstatic over the possibility ...
Where Is the Compassion in Social Security? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 16, 2024 One of the things that has long fascinated me about Social Security is how its proponents portray themselves as “caring and compassionate” for favoring this socialist program. Social Security, like all other welfare-state programs, uses the coercive apparatus of the federal government — specifically taxation on income — to take money from younger people to give it to older people. There is nothing ...
The WSJ Misses the Real Point on Chinese Tyranny by Jacob G. Hornberger May 15, 2024 A couple of days ago, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial decrying the Hong Kong government’s suppression of a song entitled “Glory to Hong Kong.” The editorial points out that the song became popular during pro-democracy protests in 2019 but now the Chinese regime has made it a criminal offense to sing, broadcast, or publish it. The editorial states: “A ...
The Immorality and Destructiveness of Occupational Licensure May 23, 2024 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the negative ramifications of occupational licensure. Go to the ...
A Gold Standard vs. the Denationalization of Money May 16, 2024 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss which monetary policy would be better--a gold standard ...
Our Discovery of Libertarianism May 9, 2024 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Richard and I talk about our personal journeys toward the discovery of ...
Tik-Tok and FISA May 2, 2024 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss recent U.S. legislation that extends and expands the ...