Government bureaus have interests, and these always lay in more power and more money for their budgets. Here’s a case study to illustrate the general principle that the leadership of administrative agencies are best understood as political partisans. Over the last few...
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Why Libertarians Loathe Tariffs
Former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump loves tariffs. In his 2011 book Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again, Trump included as part of his five-part tax policy “a 20 percent tax for importing goods.” During his first campaign...
Government Has Turned Universities and Businesses into DEI Bureaucracies
The Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on May 13, announced that they would be diverting the $2.3 million that the university spends on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies toward campus safety amidst protests over the...
A Libertarian Guide to the United Kingdom General Election
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, has finally announced there will be an election on July 4. This comes after incessant badgering from every part of the political spectrum, all of whom have been calling for an election for months. It was quite a...
When A Man’s Life Becomes a Bargaining Chip
How much longer must Julian Assannge suffer? Locked inside a process of BS legal limbo, Assange has committed no crime (even under the U.S. government's own determination) and yet he is a prisoner in the United Kingdom's harsh Belmarsh prison where he is treated worse...
The innocent dead of Rafah, have you no shame?
Footage from the Israeli Military assault on Rafah has again revealed the gruesome reality of war. A reality that tends to be omitted by the censors of the legitimate media, footage of headless babies. Their young bodies, limp, held by rescuers and loved ones in one...
Why You Can’t Afford a House w/ Dr. Bryan Caplan
https://youtu.be/ABZFsPh5I28 I know this is hard to believe, but builders try to maximize profits by cutting prices. - Bryan Caplan, Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University...
British Moralism, ‘Video Nasties,’ and Our Right to Watch Movies
There was a time when one would have to wait for a theatrically released movie to appear on television before it could be seen again. Only certain movies would be available and then often edited for run time and censorship concerns. Then came the video tape and movie...
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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...
