I'm blogging it here ... What now? Oh I see Nancy and all the Dems finally jump up to clap at the introduction of Juan Guiado. What a joke. Brags he's spent trillions on the military in conspiracy with the assembled. Brags about the new Space Force. There goes your...
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The State Is a Predator. It Can’t Be Used to Achieve Libertarian Ends
by Joe Salerno | Feb 4, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
Tyler Cowen, who is said to be “known as one of the libertarian world’s deepest thinkers,” recently wrote a blog post entitled “What Libertarianism Has Become and Will Become — State Capacity Libertarianism.” There, Cowen asserts that libertarianism “is now pretty...
Three Revolutionary Ideas
by Logan Chipkin | Jan 30, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Introduction So many ideas that we take for granted had once been considered revolutionary. Historically, common responses to founders of such ideas have been charges of heresy, ostracism, or death. Famously, Socrates was sentenced to die for “corrupting the youth”,...
The Theory and Brief History of Money and Banking
by Robert Murphy | Jan 30, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The ultimate purpose of this booklet is to give the reader a solid grasp of how money works in today’s world. Yet before diving into the particulars of central banks, repo markets, and LIBOR—all topics that will be covered in future chapters—we should first provide a...
What Robert Reich is hiding from millennials
by Bradley Thomas | Jan 28, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich’s latest video presentation attempts to explain to millennials why they are so broke. Disappointingly, millennials will be left wanting, as Reich never delves deeper than surface-level observations and conceals some inconvenient...
1/24/20 Benje Graves on Evangelical Christian Pro-War Identity Politics
by Scott Horton | Jan 28, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Pastor Benje Graves about the dominance of pro-war republicanism among American protestants. Graves says that these Christians think their belief in American empire comes from a good-faith reading of the Bible, but that really it's wrapped up in an...
Trade Sanctions Are Both Immoral and Ineffective
by Matheus Vieira | Jan 23, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
On January 10, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin announced new economic sanctions imposed on Iran in response to its missile strikes against US forces in Iraq. The sanctions target enterprises operating in the manufacturing,...
Court Orders FBI to Expunge Website Records Under Privacy Act
by Scott Horton | Jan 17, 2020 | Blog
The Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press on Antiwar.com's latest victory against the evil FBI: In late November, a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California directed the Federal Bureau of Investigation to expunge certain records...
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What Corporatism Actually Is
"The fundamental idea both of guild socialism and of corporativism is that every branch of business forms a monopolistic body, the guild or corporazione. This entity enjoys full autonomy; it is free to settle all its internal affairs without interference of external...
The Pause That Refreshes
I will be spending the holidays with my children and grandchildren at an undisclosed bunker location in the inland Rocky Mountain west and off the 'net until the new year when I will resume blogging at the Institute... Since I paused Chasing Ghosts and started...
Good Plan Means My Plan
"All this passionate praise of the supereminence of government action is but a poor disguise for the individual interventionist’s self-deification. The great god State is a great god only because it is expected to do exclusively what the individual advocate of...
Who Needs What?
"[I]t is evident ... that the man, who first made himself clothes and built himself a cabin, supplied himself with things which he did not much want, since he had lived without them till then; and why should he not have been able to support in his riper years, the...
Whose Plan?
"The alternative is not plan or no plan. The question is whose planning? Should each member of society plan for himself, or should a benevolent government alone plan for them all? The issue is not automatism versus conscious action; it is autonomous action of each...
What Full Liberalism Is Not About
"Liberalism is a doctrine directed entirely towards the conduct of men in this world. In the last analysis, it has nothing else in view than the advancement of their outward, material welfare and does not concern itself directly with their inner, spiritual and...
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