Something that VIA frequently gets requests for is help with rent payments. Why is it difficult for so many people to afford housing? The standard answer is that it’s those lazy landlords, sitting on piles of money and smoking cigars, who are to blame. This seems to...
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Vietnam! Vietnam!
by Kym Robinson | Jan 2, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“People ask me who my heroes are. I have only one – Adolf Hitler.” – General Ky, prime minister of South Vietnam. Written by Felix Greene and published in 1966, this is a explicit and graphic photo heavy book that makes a strong antiwar case. Though it was available...
“Rules of Origin” Show Why Trade Agreements Aren’t Free Trade
by Robert Murphy | Dec 31, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Ludwig von Mises famously argued that people must choose between outright socialism and unfettered capitalism, because there is no coherent “middle ground” between the two. The allegedly reasonable compromise of a highly interventionist state — where the authorities...
Chile Is in Danger of Becoming Just Another Crisis-Ridden Latin American Country
by Matheus Vieira | Dec 23, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
Although we Latin Americans thought Chile was immune to populism, small protests have grown into the largest ones since the nation’s re-democratization in the 90s. Initially, the protestors were groups of students complaining about a raise in the Santiago subway fare...
The Federal Reserve is the Most Dangerous Enemy of the U.S. and its Economy
by Gary Barnett | Dec 19, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
“Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from...
Why America’s Founders Didn’t Want a Democracy
by Gary Galles | Dec 18, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
In his book "Liberty in Peril," Randall Holcombe challenges the presumption that liberty and democracy are complementary. When I took history and government in school, many critical issues were misrepresented, given short shrift, or even ignored entirely. And those...
How Government is Preventing a North Carolina Doctor from Providing Low-Cost Care to Patients
by Bradley Thomas | Dec 17, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
A North Carolina doctor suing the state to overturn a law preventing him from providing affordable MRI scans to patients recently won a small victory in court. In late November, a Wake County Superior Court judge ruled that Dr. Gajendra Singh’s challenge of North...
Even Nixon’s Ghost Agrees That Price Controls Won’t Fix Our Broken Health Care System
by Nick Waddy | Nov 29, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The answer to high out-of-network health care costs is not to increase the federal government's already excessive powers over the marketplace. On a hot summer night—Sunday, August 15th, 1971—millions of red-blooded Americans tuned their Zenith and Magnavox TV sets to...
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The Logic of It All
This is how some people think: Business has long used the government to gain benefits it could not get in the marketplace. I have the cure for that: Abolish the market and expand the government to encompass all of society.
Another Aspect of the Eternal Intelligence Failure in the West
Had a brain zephyr. I know this because I am on the spectrum. The intelligence community (IC) hires high IQ but neuro-divergent individuals who have difficulty with tone and context and that colors reporting, assessments and final analyses. Couple that with...
What Is Easy and What Is Not Easy
It is easy to oppose Israel's massacre in the Gaza Strip. Just watch a few horrifying videos. What is not easy is understanding the price system, its prerequisites -- private property and free exchange -- and its benefits for mankind, including civil peace.
Firing Blanks: The Pentagon as a Fiscal Disaster Factory
I have mentioned previously that the introduction of all the latest and greatest western weapons in the inventory given to the Ukraine would have some very deleterious effects in the future. One was permitting possible future antagonists to observe and and take...
Can’t We All Get Along?
Pre-Zionism and pre-Israel, Arab-Muslims, Arab-Christians, and Arab-Jews (yes!) got along in many places as neighbors and friends. Compare that to Europe. Arab and Jewish nationalism messed it up. See Avi Shlaims's Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew.
Lying Politicians Gonna Lyingly Politick
House Speaker Mike Johnson speaking on Holocaust Remembrance Day: We remember what happened then [in Nazi Germany], and today, we are witnessing American universities quickly become hostile places for Jewish students and faculty. The very campuses which were once the...
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