Many may not want to hear this but if local or state police in certain cities aren't willing to protect life and private property (I know, I know, my first podcast episode detailed Warren vs. District of Columbia), they will beg for Trump to send in federal forces and...
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Toxic Partisanship: A Gateway Towards Authoritarianism
by David D'Amato | Sep 1, 2020 | Featured Articles, Politics
For years a consistent refrain in American politics has bewailed an increasingly polarized political atmosphere. As the Pew Research Center observes, for the first time in almost 25 years, “majorities in both parties express not just unfavorable but very unfavorable...

New Evidence Indicates Police Provoked Violence In Kenosha
by Matt Agorist | Aug 30, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Serious violence unfolded in Kenosha Tuesday night during protests over the shooting of Jacob Blake. The violence mentioned below, however, was not between police and protesters. It was captured on video and it was between citizens. Two people were killed and a third...
Bitcoin is Unbeatable
by Tom Luongo | Aug 25, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are headline news again. DeFi—Decentralized Finance—tokens like LINK and others have exploded in recent weeks, capturing speculators’ imaginations. But more importantly, given the day-to-day fragility of the capital markets and the...
How Privatizing the Roads Would Help Stop Police Brutality
by Tate Fegley | Aug 22, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Advocates of a free society so frequently field the objection “Who will build the roads?” or some variation thereof that it’s become a meme. Much effort has been put into answering this question, including books on the privatization of roads and highways. What has...
Western Europe Puts Free Speech in the Crosshairs
by Brice M. Vanhaelen | Aug 17, 2020 | Featured Articles
As Murray Rothbard, writing in Power and Market, noted: “Democracy may be thought of, not so much as a value in itself, but as a possible method for achieving other desired ends...Democracy, after all, is simply a method of choosing governors and issues, and it is not...
Who’s Sick of the ‘Zombie Reply?’
by Peter R. Quiñones | Aug 10, 2020 | Blog
On the day Hugh Hefner died I posted a picture on Twitter with a quote in which he puts forth the idea that we own our minds and bodies, and for church or state to attempt to limit that, is inappropriate. A random Tweeter deduced from the comment that if “his own mind...
How State Governments Can Fight the Federal Reserve
by Michael Maharrey | Aug 6, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
If you want to end unconstitutional, overreaching federal power—end the Fed. It’s the engine that drives the most powerful government in the history of the world. But Congress will never abolish the central bank. It can’t even come up with the will to audit the Fed....
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Human Rights Watch: Yes, Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza
A growing body of legal experts and international humanitarian organizations have concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
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...
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