The push-back against identity politics by disillusioned leftists is welcome, but the striving to replace identity with economic equality as the guiding political principle? Not so much. I won't spend time on the problems with identity politics, a zero-sum game if...
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Inflation Doesn’t Pay
by Thomas Eddlem | Sep 8, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
One of the most unexamined—and almost unmentioned—economic realities of post-gold standard America is the change in America's economic growth rate since the gold window closed in 1971. Does inflation change the rate of economic growth? The Federal Reserve Bank claims...
What If…?
by Jim Cardoza | Sep 8, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
What if we were free? What if government sought to serve the people, not control them? What if we own ourselves? What if property rights spring from that premise? What if each of us determine what makes life worthwhile? What if we need liberty to pursue happiness?...
Inflation as State-Sponsored Terrorism
by Jeff Deist | Sep 8, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
Remember the quaint old days of 2019? We were told the U.S. economy was in great shape. Inflation was low, jobs were plentiful, GDP was growing. And frankly, if covid had not come along, there is a pretty good chance Donald Trump would have been reelected. At an event...
Biden’s New War on Extremism (and Liberty)
by Jim Bovard | Sep 7, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
President Joe Biden believes that hysterical denunciations of extremism will save the Democratic Party in the upcoming congressional midterms. Despite media portrayals of Biden as a good-natured moderate, the president has relied on sweeping castigations of opposition...
An America First Labor Day
by Dan McKnight | Sep 7, 2022 | Featured Articles
I hope you had a fun and celebratory Labor Day weekend. I’d like to speak to you about that holiday, and why it connects to the mission of Bring Our Troops Home. John L. Lewis was a labor organizer, and for forty years served as president of the United Mine Workers of...
U.S. State Department Approves $1.1 Billion Weapons Package for Taiwan
by Connor Freeman | Sep 7, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Amid soaring tensions with the U.S. and China, the State Department approved a previously revealed White House plan to supply $1.1 billion in arms to Taiwan, the Associated Press reported on Friday. This announcement has angered Beijing which warned of...
How a Classical Frenchman Predicted the 21st Century’s ‘Humanitarian Interventions’
by Bas Spliet | Sep 6, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Two hundred years ago, Benjamin Constant foresaw the rise of humanitarian intervention as the foremost modern pretext for war. In the age of commerce and democracy, the state had to concoct "scandalous lies" to subvert the peaceful international order based on free...