I recently attended an Australian Friends of Palestine charity fundraiser. It was a run-walk on a warm Sunday afternoon at Glenelg. Merchandise was sold, donations taken, and those entering paid to help raise money and awareness about the genocide in Palestine. In the...
Everybody knows housing unaffordability and home sticker prices peaked at all-time highs in 2023, even higher than the peak of the 2007 real estate bubble in real terms. Both sticker prices and median mortgage payments for homes remain today at among the most...
On the morning after elections, many voters wake up and instinctively quote Dorothy Parker: “What fresh hell is this?” “Will of the people!” is the correct answer—at least if a Democrat won the election. Actually, the notion that election results represent the “will...
Democrats have found a new superstar to help get out the progressive vote: Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan. Khan has done town halls with Representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Mark Pocan (D-WI), Senate candidate and current Representative Ruben...
The history of the human race is one long story of attempts by certain persons and classes to obtain control of the power of the State, so as to win earthly gratifications at the expense of others. --William Graham Sumner, 1883 For advocates of individual liberty,...
Democrats have been breathlessly insisting that if Donald Trump is elected again that this could be our last election. That is obvious nonsense, but as the journalist Walter Kirn recently pointed out, “with their wanton rhetoric, they've also made many of us never...
Between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, there is little reason for hope as far as high prices go. Despite both campaigning on making prices lower—something patently ludicrous on its face—a look at their actual policy proposals cannot but lead the economically informed...
I believe that every argument should begin with commonly understood definitions. Capitalism is a social system based on the explicit recognition of private property and voluntary contracts. Communism is the abolition of private property altogether. And socialism is...
