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Thomas Sowell at 90: Understanding Race Relations Around the World

by Richard M. Ebeling June 17, 2020

The issue of race relations in America has reached a new high pitch with the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman, followed by mass peaceful demonstrations and instances of violence, looting, and arson in cities around the country. A new soul-searching on matters of race and racism are now, also, impacting a growing number of academic and ...

Government Standards

by Laurence M. Vance June 16, 2020

Standards are important. For example: steel. According to ASTM International (formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials), ASTM’s steel standards are instrumental in classifying, evaluating, and specifying the material, chemical, mechanical, and metallurgical properties of the different types of steels, which are primarily used in the production of mechanical components, industrial parts, and ...

The Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War, Part 1

by Danny Sjursen June 15, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 I had a horror of the Mexican War ... only I had not the moral courage enough to resign. — Ulysses S. Grant (1879) The phrase “regime change wars” has, of ...

Engineering a Race War

by John W. Whitehead June 12, 2020

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”— George Santayana Watch and see: this debate over police brutality and accountability is about to get politicized into an election-year referendum on who should occupy the White House. Don’t fall for it. The Deep State, the powers-that-be, want us to turn this into a race war, ...

Sell NPR to the Highest Bidder

by Laurence M. Vance June 11, 2020

Founded fifty years ago as National Public Radio, NPR — as it now always refers to itself — is a nonprofit media organization created by the federal government to replace the National Educational Radio Network (NERN). NPR, which is headquartered in Washington, D.C., functions as a membership organization of separately licensed and operated public radio ...

Tragedies of Our Time: Pandemic, Planning, and Racial Politics

by Richard M. Ebeling June 11, 2020

An old adage says that tragedies often come in threes. Certainly, the first half of 2020 has seen a version of this. First, the coronavirus that has infected millions of people and killed hundreds of thousands. Second, the response by most governments to the virus by commanding near universal business lockdowns and stay-at-homes that have wrecked economic havoc on ...

How LockDowns Shattered the Structure of Production

by Richard M. Ebeling June 9, 2020

Old fallacies have a way of reappearing, especially, during times of social and economic crises. The current coronavirus crisis has opened the door to a variety of them, including the notion of a “paradox of thrift.” It is the idea that if people save more of their incomes by reducing their consumption expenditures, they will lower the market demand ...

The Wisconsin Model

by Laurence M. Vance June 8, 2020

A recent Wisconsin Supreme Court decision should serve as a model for transforming the United States into a free society. Here is what led to it. On March 24, the Wisconsin governor, Tony Evers, a Democrat, directed state health officials to issue a stay-at-home order for Wisconsin prohibiting non-essential travel in order to slow the spread ...

Reform versus Liberty

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 5, 2020

Americans alive today have grown up in what libertarians term a welfare-warfare state. It is a system in which the primary purpose of the federal government is to take care of people and keep them safe and secure. This type of governmental system is also sometimes referred to as a paternalistic state, given that the federal government essentially plays ...

Freedom Requires Resisting Coronavirus Pessimism

by Richard M. Ebeling June 4, 2020

“I’m from the government, and I am here to help!” This line has become a cynical joke among large numbers of Americans, and it often cuts across differences of political opinion concerning the role and activities of government in modern American society. This has continued with the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis, and especially the longer it goes ...

This Is Not a Revolution. It’s a Blueprint for Locking Down the Nation

by John W. Whitehead June 2, 2020

When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you—pull your beard, flick your face—to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. — John Lennon Brace yourselves. There is something being concocted in the dens of power, ...

Sickness Is The Health Of The State!

by David Stockman June 1, 2020

A hundred years ago in response to the horror of WWI, the great Randolph Bourne famously pronounced the truth that “War is the Health of the State.” Said Bourne, War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate co-operation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups ...