Inflation. Today’s inflammatory word of the day. Apparently, I’m permitted to share critical thought in this regard since I majored in Finance and Econ in college, correct? I haven’t written anything on today’s other hot topic, Ukraine. With 13 years of military...
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Pulling Decentralization from the Ruins of ‘Liberal Democracy’
So-called liberal democracies have characterized the West for the past century and are viewed as the pinnacle of political development. So much so that Western elites are firmly convinced that this system of governance should be spread far and wide—be it indirectly...
Conscription: First Stop on the Road to Military Despotism
The U.S. Senate continues to debate legislation potentially adding women to the military draft in the United States. This week, for instance, Senator Josh Hawley attempted to remove from the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act provisions requiring that “all...
National Review Is a Poisonously Stupid Rag
“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...
TGIF: Beware the Government-“Science” Complex
The government-"science" complex ostensibly promotes the search for facts about our world, but it actually promotes and enforces orthodoxy, protects resulting paradigms, and manufactures apparent consensuses that are questioned only at one's reputational peril. That's...
TGIF: Liberty as a Problem-Solving Process
Strictly speaking, liberty isn't the solution to problems. It's what creates the framework in which solutions can be discovered. That is an important distinction because it reminds us that advocates of full-blown liberty do not offer the world a problem-free society...
The Immortality of Lobbyists
Throughout much of human history, a political ruler was often considered to be only as good as his ability to distribute gifts, booty, and other material rewards to his most valuable and loyal servants. In the “barbarian” days of northern Europe, military men expected...
Episode 549: Answering Radigan Carter’s Objections to Decentralization w/ Per Bylund
84 Minutes PG-13 Per Bylund is a Fellow at the Mises Institute and Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. Pete asked Per to come on the show to comment on audio pointed out by one of Pete's Patreon supporters of the Hidden Forces podcast...
Talk of Secession is the ‘New Normal’
Secession is a four-letter word for the millions of Americans who have gone through the conventional educational pipeline that teaches them that the American state is indivisible and sacrosanct. However, intellectually honest historians whose minds haven’t been warped...
Is It Too Late To Buy Bitcoin w/Car
Car from Timeline Earth joined Tommy to discuss Bitcoin and the future of separation of currency and state. After Elon Musk and Tesla announced they will be accepting Bitcoin for purchases the price skyrocketed. Is this the peak? or just the beginning?...
2020 – The Longest Year of My Life In Review
A Requiem on Facts If you’ve ever heard me share my “origin story” you know that it’s a pretty common story for many. I was watching a 2007 presidential debate and this guy I had never heard of before, in the middle of the “War on Terror,” states plainly that the...
How Small States Enable Wealth: A Historical Analysis
Deepak Lal, a prominent, pro-market, development economist wrote the following words in his 2004 book, In Praise of Empires: Empires have been natural throughout human history. Most people have lived in empires. Empires and the process of globalization associated with...
Don’t Throw Away ‘Acceptable’ Because You Won’t Get ‘Perfection’
In episode #511 of my podcast, Jeff Deist states that with the control of the levers of power firmly in the hands of Left AND Right Progressives, “separation” is the only solution. I interpret his use of the term separation as radical decentralization and even...
11/6/20 Jeff Deist on the Cancerous Growth of America’s Federal Government
Jeff Deist discusses the idea that the best path forward for America may be some kind of peaceful breakup. He reminds us that America has never truly been one country, the way that, for instance, many small European nations are—and indeed the United States was never...
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