Robert Higgs: The Ratchet effect In my work, the ratchet effect describes the characteristic way in which government under modern ideological conditions grows during a perceived national emergency. The government's size, scope, and power grow abruptly as the...
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Tribalism and Ideology w/Buck Johnson
Buck joined me once again to dive into tribalism and ideology by examining the history of nations and Higgs’ writing on ideology as catalogued in his book Crisis and Leviathan. Buck Twitter Counterflow 19 Skills Pdf Autonomy Course Critical Thinking Course Donate...
You Call Me Sergeant When I’m Talking To You
Doctor Armen Henderson was handcuffed by Miami police as he was loading health care supplies for the homeless into his van in front of his house. His crime - disrespect. "Dr. Armen Henderson, an internal medicine physician at the University of Miami Health System,...
Pressure-Release Valves in Participatory Fascism
Almost every nation in the world has adopted a system of participatory fascism, whereby nominally representative governments can abridge and restrict someone’s nominally recognized private-property rights. Participatory fascism may enjoy the appearance of popular...
Robert Higgs: Astute Socialists Opt for Participatory Fascism in Practice
From the Independent Institute: "Astute socialists (if that’s not an oxymoron) opt for participatory fascism, not outright socialism, in practice. They know that outright socialism—the nationalization and central control of all the major means of production—is a...
The Full Cost of the Anti-Immigrant State
The great Bob Higgs on ends and means in ethnic cleansing.
No More Great Presidents
Originally published in the March 1997 issue of The Free Market, Volume 15, Number 3 My idea of a great president is one who acts in accordance with his oath of office to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Not since the presidency...
If Men Were Angels
The Basic Analytics of the State versus Self-government In The Federalist No. 51, arguably the most important one of all, James Madison wrote in defense of a proposed national constitution that would establish a structure of “checks and balances between the different...
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
