With Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve beginning a cutting cycle, it is worth revisiting why the Feds manipulation of interest rates is not a harmless (if misguided) technocratic tool for attempting to “fine-tune” the economy, but is instead a source of deep...
Under a democratic state, your money can be likened to a piece of bread thrown into a pond where fish from both the left and right nibble away. Your money and rights are fought over and consumed in ways you did not consent to. In modern governmental systems, the tax...
Libertarians frequently note the incoherence of American and Israeli foreign policy. Nowhere is this more apparent than with respect to American and Israeli relations with Iran over the last seventy-five years. Last June, the United States and Israel bombed Iran on...
“We candlemakers are suffering from the unfair competition of a foreign rival, whose production costs are so low that he floods our market with light at a price far below ours…This rival is none other than the sun.”- Frédéric Bastiat, Economic Sophisms (1845) Frédéric...
On Monday, September 22, the current president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, joined the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), David Petraeus, on stage for a discussion at the Concordia Annual Summit in New York City. The summit is one of the most...
Spain, long seen as a loyal NATO ally, is now carving out a path that could make it the West’s most unexpected rebel. Since 2023, the Spanish government under the leadership of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has pursued an increasingly independent course that directly...
The Trump administration is ending one of the biggest statistical scams in Washington. For thirty years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued an annual “food security” report that politicians used to fabricate an illusion of mass hunger. USDA announced...
Last week, Pope Leo XIV renewed his calls for peace in the Gaza Strip, this time by commending the various Catholic organizations who registered their solidarity with the besieged population of the territory. Since assuming the papacy in April, Leo has consistently...
Trump fibbed when he signed his first executive order in January, the one that promised never to repeat the Biden-era barriers to free speech. Everyone knows this by now. FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) summed it up well, yet only scratched...
Few twentieth‑century champions of laissez‑faire economics have cast a longer shadow than Leonard Edward Read. Born in Hubbardston, Michigan in 1898, Read founded the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and wrote nearly thirty books and hundreds of essays. He...
September is Constitution Month, a celebration of the document produced by the 1787 Convention to replace the Articles of Confederation. Predictably, whether Republican or Democrat, there was no shortage of public effusions in its praise. Even libertarians, inheritors...
Moldova’s September 28, 2025 parliamentary elections are shaping up to be another highly contentious struggle between pro-Russia and anti-Russia factions. Both the European Union and Moscow are accusing each other of illicit election meddling to put their respective...
On the Wednesday of the last week of July, a former Florida State University employee approached a man wearing an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) shirt on campus and began berating him for his support of a state she believed was committing genocide. By the next day, she...
If you could be shown that you were being lied into a narrative about an immigrant crime wave in Britain, would that make you more skeptical of the wider narrative of a refugee crime wave across both Europe and America? Migration Central, one of Britain’s immigration...
Though I do not personally identify as a libertarian, one of the things I admire about libertarians is their emphasis on protecting individual rights. Freedom of conscience and freedom of religion are among our most important rights. I’ve made no secret about not...
Reporting has recently emerged that the United States is considering direct strikes on Venezuela that could increase volatility in the region and the risk of war. Under the pretext of disrupting the flow of drugs into the United States by Venezuelan drug cartels, the...
If you had to pick the single most influential individual of the twentieth century, Vladimir Lenin would almost certainly be in the top of your bracket. While a certain Austrian art student might have a bit more x-factor—as we say in the sales business—the leader of...
In his polemical essay Vision of the Anointed, economist Thomas Sowell argues that grand political visions seldom survive contact with reality. Politicians promise to banish war and debt, only to preside over more of both. The bigger the promises, the easier it is to...
