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There Is No Federal Solution

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The twentieth century in the United States can certainly be characterized by the massive increase in federal solutions to right every wrong, correct every injustice, and fix every problem, real or imaginary. This mentality is what gave us things like the New Deal, Social Security, Prohibition, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Civil Rights Act, the Fair Deal, the Great Society, the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs, Medicare, and Medicaid. Unfortunately, much of this is still with us. With the coming of the COVID- 19 pandemic in 2020, the 50 states reasserted themselves as problem solvers, but not in a good way. Governors, mayors, county commissioners, and city councilmen enacted draconian lockdowns, quarantines, face mask requirements, the closure of “unessential” businesses, bans on indoor dining, the closing of schools, stay-at-home orders, contract tracing, curfews, capacity limits on stores and restaurants, the canceling of concerts and sporting events, social distancing requirements, prohibitions on weddings and funerals, vaccine mandates, and ...

Can Capitalism Survive? 80 Years After Schumpeter’s Answer

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Eighty years ago, in the midst of the Second World War, Austrian-born economist Joseph A. Schumpeter published one of his most famous books, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942). A central question that he asked and tried to answer was, “Can Capitalism Survive?” His basic conclusion was, “No, I do not think it can” (p. 61). He was (forlornly) confident that a workable socialism would replace the market-based society. Now, eight decades after he drew this conclusion, what can we say about the future of capitalism, or, perhaps, better phrased, the free-market, liberal economic system? Joseph Alois Schumpeter was born on February 8, 1883, in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, in an area that is now a part of the Czech Republic. He attended the University of Vienna in the years before the First World War and was a classmate of another famous Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises, in the graduate seminar of one of the early leaders of the Austrian School ...

Should We Adopt JFK’s Peace Speech?

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Eight months after the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy delivered a dramatic paradigm-shifting speech at the commencement exercises at American University. Delivered on June 10, 1963 — almost five months before he would be assassinated — it has gone down in history as JFK’s “Peace Speech.” It was a short speech. It was a shocking speech, especially to the U.S. national-security establishment. It was broadcast all across the Soviet Union — the first time that had ever happened. Every American today owes it to himself to read or listen to Kennedy’s Peace Speech, especially given the deadly, destructive, and highly dangerous crisis in Ukraine. You can do it here.  In his Peace Speech, Kennedy effectively declared an end to the vehement anti-Soviet, anti-Russia animus that had guided U.S. foreign policy since the end of World War II. Consider some excerpts from his speech: What kind ...

JFK’s Rejection of the Pentagon’s and CIA’s Anti-Russia Animus

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One of the things that the mainstream media has always ignored was President Kennedy’s rejection of the extreme anti-Russia animus that characterized the Pentagon and the CIA during the Cold War. In fact, for a long period of time, the media continued maintaining the official lie that President Lyndon Johnson had simply continued Kennedy’s policies after his assassination.

The U.S. National Security State’s Legacy of Death and Destruction

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Unfortunately, the massive death and destruction that the U.S. national-security establishment has produced in Ukraine with its political gamesmanship involving NATO and Russia is not the first time that its interventionism has produced such a horrific result. In fact, the entire legacy of the U.S. national-security state form of government, which was brought into existence after ...