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National Review Is a Poisonously Stupid Rag

by Sam Peters | Oct 20, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

“If an insufficient patriotism is one of the ills of contemporary America,” declares National Review editor Rich Lowry, “then a national divorce would prescribe arsenic as a cure. It would burn down America to save America, or at least those parts of America it considered salvageable.” It is precisely here that the anti-secession movement goes wrong, as it has more than once before. In the manner of obtuse historians, they identify the government as the nation itself, and in this case choose the political union over the social fabric. Lowry would sooner see the American tradition perish than...

Socialists Backstab Workers By Supporting Economic Lockdowns

by Sam Peters | May 27, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles

Leftists support the lockdowns, conservatives oppose. With a few exceptions, pandemic policy has lined the tribes up with impressive neatness, and while many factors contribute to any ideological divide, the socialist influence on the broader left is here playing a crucial and unexpected role. While the trademark of progressives has long been the grand social engineering project, the socialists' motivation for supporting such policies (and allying with the rest of the left) is their stated goal of helping the workers. Workers' movements, centered around workers' issues, sign on to...

Pizza-Backed Bitcoins

by Sam Peters | Dec 20, 2018 | Economics, Featured Articles

Beneath all the gut-level suspicions about cryptocurrencies as something shadowy and unreal, there is a fundamental problem of economics that threatens to undo all the gains Bitcoin has made, and assign it inevitably to the dustbin. Regardless of the particular implementation (the subject of intense debate among technical experts) this basic problem in the economics of currencies that has led some economists to argue that neither Bitcoin, nor any other form of crypto, can ever truly serve as anything better than a purely speculative asset. The economic problem strikes at the very root of...

How the left put Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court

by Sam Peters | Oct 17, 2018 | Featured Articles, Politics

You might think that the left would have learned its lesson after blundering into the election Donald Trump in 2016, but it seems two years to reflect on their defeat has not been enough time for Progressives to rethink the strategy that handed them the biggest electoral disaster in their history. The political drama surrounding the Kavanaugh appointment has been an orchestrated production by the left, and the result of this impassioned, well-planned campaign has only been a reprise of that disaster. In 2018, like 2016, the left has deployed a campaign of moral superiority and shame, and,...

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Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War

by Gary Vogler

From the Foreword by Lawrence B. Wilkerson: “[T]he debate over whether oil was a principal reason for the 2003 invasion has waxed and waned, with one camp arguing that it absolutely was, while the other argues the precise opposite.” “Mr. Vogler, himself a former...

Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism

by Keith Knight

Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...

Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania

by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...

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