The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money by Bryan Caplan (Princeton University Press, 2018, 395 pages). Almost every book on education policy (and I have read a great many of them) springs from the set of assumptions that...
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TGIF: NATO and Collective Insecurity
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 22, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman
Collective security, the official goal of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, seems plausible on its face. A group of nations ostensibly concerned about a common threat agree to defend one another in the event of an attack. "All for one and one for all," as...
Science Deniers Refuse to Admit the Failure of Lockdowns
by Ryan McMaken | Apr 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
As hard as it is to believe, the Chinese regime is still employing a “zero covid” strategy and claims it can eradicate covid entirely through lockdowns and vaccinations. China’s draconian, nightmarish, near-total lockdown policy—which is notably still “necessary” in...
The Evil of Economic Regulation
by Bryan Caplan | Apr 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
In the Yucatan, we stayed at several all-inclusive resorts. These resorts were a good fit for my family: When you’re travelling in a Third World country with four kids during a pandemic, you want a convenient supply of abundant and tasty food – and enough variety to...
New SCOTUS Petitions Highlight COVID-19 Abuse of Due Process
by Patrick Macfarlane | Apr 21, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
(Image: Woman arrested for not wearing mask in NY subway to sue police for $10 million https://abcn.ws/30RetW4) If one were to reflect on the essential elements of society, one would quickly identify the need for peaceful dispute resolution. Indeed, on even the most...
Congress as a Seinfeld Episode, But This Won’t Leave You Laughing
by Norman Singleton | Apr 20, 2022 | Featured Articles
Congress. Seinfeld. Both offer amusing forms of entertainment, one being about nothing and the other starring people that know nothing. The entertainment value of watching Congress is that their intentions and the effects of their actions are frequently 180 degrees...
Democratic Socialism: Mob Rule by the Ignorant
by Gary Galles | Apr 20, 2022 | Featured Articles
Why is politics so negative compared to marketing — its analog in the private sector — even though virtually every candidate echoes the desire to "just get along"? The explanation revolves around two important ways political competition differs from market...
Why Waco Still Matters
by Justin Raimondo | Apr 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
The following article was originally published on Antiwar.com in 2005. On April 19, 1993, agents of the U.S. government assaulted the Branch Davidian “compound” at Waco, Texas – a religious community of Adventists under the leadership of David Koresh – killing 74 men,...