As a long-time critic of Washington’s obsession with the so-called “China threat”—and having written an entire book debunking it, The Fake China Threat—I could not in good conscience allow this year’s Report to Congress of the U.S.–China Economic and Security Review...
Henry Hazlitt’s life story reads like a microcosm of the American century. Born in Philadelphia on November 28, 1894, he lost his father in infancy and left the City College of New York to support his widowed mother. In the fluid labor market of the time he bounced...
What do the highest echelons of government, media, corporations, entertainment, and academia all have in common? Many of them may signify the systematic total moral degradation of our society. Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak, Prince Andrew, Ghislaine Maxwell,...
Anchorage is not dead, and Budapest is still alive. Between the Trump-Putin meeting in Anchorage Alaska and the proposed Trump-Putin meeting in Budapest, the diplomatic track that the United States and Russia were on seemed to die. In October, Donald Trump and...
In the past few months, I have reported for the Libertarian Institute on powerful American Jewish Zionists’ campaigns to unseat a sitting Republican congressman; to silence non-violent university protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza; to blunt MAGA’s criticisms...
If you were to double the money in circulation instantly, society as a whole would be no richer. Printing more zeros on the currency does nothing to produce more of the necessities and luxuries of life. But wage earners would see the purchasing power of their wages...
Free-marketeers have long pointed out a particular asymmetry between capitalism and socialism (whether of the international or national variety). While anyone in a capitalist society would have a right to engage in socialism (as anyone can do now in our hampered...
The modern car is an abomination. These once glorious machines have been covered in so many needless hoses, cords, sensors, and plastic shields that a man cannot just open his hood and look at his engine. They are full of other invasive features due to persistent...
