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Two Under-Appreciated Contributions of the Catholic Church – Thomas E. Woods Jr., Ph.D.
by Keith Knight | Feb 6, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/6-5-bOGeYUc Locke may have been and indeed was an ardent Protestant, but he was also a Protestant scholastic, heavily influenced by the founder of Protestant scholasticism, the Dutchman Hugo Grotius, who in turn was heavily influenced by the late...
Our Monetary System Is Between a Rock and a Hard Place
by Andre Marques | Feb 3, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
Last November, the Federal Reserve System announced tapering (a gradual reduction of the central bank’s monthly asset purchases to the point of ending the asset purchase program, which means that the Fed would stop increasing its balance sheet). In December, it...
Decriminalize All Capitalist Acts Between Consenting Adults. Jonathan Newman, Ph.D. & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Jan 9, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/z7vdWiUa-pQ We should compare the outcome of some event or policy to the alternative timeline in which that event never happened or that policy was never put in place. We should not compare before and after only. This alternative timeline, the “what...
Cronyism: The Big Business, Big Government Alliance. Patrick Newman, Ph.D. & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Jan 7, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/5uqGBlcxbNo Special-interest legislation is inherent in the very nature of government. On the free market, the network of voluntary exchanges, all activity is based on individual liberty and results in mutually beneficial outcomes. The competitive...
Curtis Yarvin is Wrong About Libertarianism. Ace Archist & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Dec 29, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/Id1sERRBNZU It is absurd to believe that an agency which may tax without consent can be a property protector. Likewise, it is absurd to believe that an agency with legislative powers can preserve law and order. Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Ph.D.,...
Eugenics in Wisconsin Ep. 197
by Patrick Macfarlane | Dec 28, 2021 | Vital Dissent
https://youtu.be/p9ycCASQohU In this episode, I uncover Wisconsin's leading role in the eugenics movement by exploring the "Wisconsin Home for the Feebleminded," a correctional institution that I rode by on the school bus every day growing up. Episode 197 of the...
Salafis Throwing Bombs: How American and British Planners Partnered With Al-Qaeda Affiliated Groups At the Start of the Syrian Civil War
by William Van Wagenen | Dec 28, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
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Contours of The Global Imperial Architecture
Antiwar.com recently published an article jointly written by Institute Director Scott Horton and this author (Weeks). The piece, “Strategic Treason: The Empire Fetes Man Who Killed US Troops,” discussed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s trip to New York City, which...
The Most Important Chapter of Hayek’s Most Important Book
Economist Friedrich Hayek's most popular book, The Road to Serfdom, contains a particularly important chapter titled "The End of Truth." That chapter, with a new foreward by economist Daniel D. Klein of George Mason University, is now available to read with updated...
Standards!
Secretary of War Hegseth recently brought the perfumed princes to the Pentagram to give a short speech on standards. I am glad for the name change since the DoD has never troubled themselves with defending the nation. Someone: "How come there aren't any fat Marines?"...
Short Story – Context
He clenched his fist around the USB, impatience gripping him as he waited. He had just finished pacing only to sit down, unaware of his rocking back and forth. Once he saw her, he was back to his feet. He wanted to push it into her hand and disappear. Instead, she...
The Impasse
Liberty is only acceptable for a virtuous people.
The Great Enrichment Is Real
From about 1800 to the present the world's economy did something good, which looks to be permanent and looks to be justified. If contrary to the evidence we cling to our prejudices about economic history—our view that the Industrial Revolution was improverishng, or...
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