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2/11/22 Shireen Al-Adeimi: A Deep Dive on the War in Yemen
Scott is joined by Shireen Al-Adeimi to discuss an article she wrote recently about the Yemen War under Biden. The two go through the origins of the war and where it stands today. Al-Adeimi explains how the war is evil and counterproductive. Lastly, Scott and Al-Adeimi game out what an end to the war would look like and discuss what everyday Americans can do to help stop this atrocity. Discussed on the show: “Biden has merely rebranded the brutal war against Yemen”(Insider) Dave Smith explaining the Yemen War to Joe Rogan “In Strategic Shift, U.S. Draws Closer to Yemeni Rebels” (Wall...
Government Education Chickens Return Again to the Roost
If you favor a government-controlled virtual monopoly in schooling, don't be surprised when a school board removes Maus, the award-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, from an eighth-grade class that covers the Holocaust from a language-arts perspective. If you are appalled by this news from McMinn County, Tennessee, maybe you should favor placing schools in a truly free and competitive marketplace, where entrepreneurs would have no institutional barriers to offering innovative forms of education. (For details see my Separating School and...
1/19/22 Zaher Wahab: Afghanistan is Starving and Nobody Cares
Scott interviews Zaher Wahab of the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education about the economic catastrophe taking place in Afghanistan. Although the U.S. Government claimed it was working to develop Afghanistan, Wahab explains that what it really did was prop the country’s economy up until it left. Now, in the midst of the collapse, the people of Afghanistan are starving. And the American hawks and pundits, who only four months ago were screaming about the wellbeing of Afghan civilians, now don’t seem to have a care in the world for them. Wahab fills us in on this situation, its...
The Antiwar Comic: Fight For Your President’s Poll Numbers!
Captain Deflection returns! Protector of the Establishment! For more comics, visit the Webcomic Factory.
A Solution to Transgender Sports
Even in these politically divisive times, this headline fairly leaps off the page at you: “Texas Passes Bill Barring Sports for Transgender Students.” According to Texas State House Representative Valoree Swanson, a sponsor of this bill, it is “all about girls and protecting them” in the state’s University Interscholastic League. She continued: “We need a statewide level playing field…It’s very important that we, who got elected to be here, protect our girls.” This seems a bit unfair to a small group of marginalized students, but we all know the genesis of this initiative: boys with...
Vaccines, Autonomy, and Mandates: A Libertarian Analysis
Prefatory Note Given the subject matter discussed below, I believe it prudent to state at the outset that I am not at all opposed to vaccinations themselves: indeed, I have received a COVID-19 vaccine, as well as all other normal-course vaccinations recommended for someone my age. Yet there are, it seems to me, interesting, difficult questions surrounding the state’s role in promoting or mandating vaccines. The goal here is to start a conversation not about the effectiveness of vaccines, but about the individual’s sphere of autonomy and what kinds of medical decisions are within it, and...
Is Virtue Signaling Vicious?
Virtue signaling—the practice of highlighting what one takes to be one’s own moral superiority, often by loudly denouncing the character and comportment, including the speech, of other people—has become a dominant mode of rhetoric throughout social media and network television. Virtue theory, in contrast, is a teleological approach to normative morality concerned with how actions affect one’s soul or character. Historians of philosophy usually trace virtue theory to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, the first extant articulation of ideas such as that habits build character, and virtues...
Progressivism Must Be Defeated. GOP Senate Candidate Blake Masters & Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/C2Mys-HO54Q The only means to raise wage rates permanently for all those eager to earn wages is to raise the productivity of labor by increasing the per-head quota of capital invested and improving the methods of production. The better the tools are which the worker uses in his job, the more he can perform in an hour, the higher is, consequently, his remuneration. The height of wage rates is determined by the consumers’ appraisal of the value the worker’s labor adds to the value of the article available for sale. Ludwig von Mises, Planning for Freedom, p. 6, 151, 190...
The Antiwar Comic: Germ Warfare
We really need to abolish germ warfare, don't we? More comics at the Webcomic Factory.
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