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The Conservative Denial of Reality

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One of the things that has long fascinated me about conservatives — and, well, has long bemused me as well — is their ability to deny reality. They are able to simply set aside what is real and ensconce themselves in their own little fantasy world.  One example involves socialism, an economic philosophy that conservatives have long decried. They will rant and rail against socialism, while proudly proclaiming themselves to be fierce defenders of capitalism, free markets, and free enterprise.  And then comes their ardent support for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public (i.e., government) schooling, immigration controls, monetary central planning, farm subsidies, education grants, public housing, and every other socialist program that comes down the pike, with the possible exception of food stamps. What’s fascinating is that they don’t seem to even recognize the contradiction that lies at the center of their lives. They simply continue to blithely live their lives as if the contradiction doesn’t ...

Reform Is Not Freedom

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NOTICE: Mark your calendar! Thursday, October 5, at 7 p.m. Eastern. Benjamin Power is 0ur first presenter in our upcoming online Austrian conference: "How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life." Register here to receive your Zoom link. **** When I discovered libertarianism more than 40 years ago, the revelation that shocked me the most was that I wasn’t living in a free society. All my life, especially since the first grade in the public schools to which my parents were forced to send me, I had been inculcated with the belief that I lived in a free country. And here I was — in my late 20s — breaking through the inches-thick indoctrination that encased my mind and realizing that it was all a lie.  It’s got to be an exhilarating and exciting feeling when one is living in a genuinely free society. When I discovered the truth more than 40 years ago, I decided right then ...

Apple’s New iPhone and European Statism

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Apple’s new iPhone 15 demonstrates one of the principle features of European society — the fact that European political regimes wield the power to regulate, control, and direct economic activity.  The new iPhone now carries a USB-C charging port, rather than the proprietary lightning charging port that Apple has long been using.  While Apple’s decision to change the charging port was technically “voluntary,” it came about because of a vote by the European Union to require all sellers of cell phones to carry the USB-C charging port.  Thus, while Apple could have simply refrained from selling its iPhone within the EU countries, it instead chose to comply with the EU regulatory mandate in order to continue selling its product within the member nations of the European Union. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. Needless to say, the statists within the ...

To Cure Healthcare, We Need to Kill Government Involvement

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Most Americans need not have seen the recent headline announcing that Connecticut healthcare insurers seek to raise premiums by over 20 percent to realize that America’s healthcare system is badly broken -- overly expensive and insufficiently healthful. What they have yet to fully grasp is that it’s almost entirely the government’s fault. Instead, many applaud socialized medicine, ...