Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, proponents of lockdowns, shelter-in-place orders, mask mandates and other coercive government interventions have characterized these measures as benevolently “erring on the side of caution.” Now, as the grim toll of those public...
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War of the Worlds: COVID Edition
by Mike Fedele | Jan 3, 2022 | Featured Articles
In the H.G. Wells classic movie War of the Worlds (the 1953 original, not the trash Spielberg 2005 version) Martians invade Earth and vaporize an unprepared humanity. We're introduced to our protagonists, who are post-war atomic scientists living in Southern...
Stephen M Walt: Countries Should Mind Their Own Business
by Steven Woskow | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog
"As A.J.P. Taylor once archly observed, leaders in the 19th century “fought ‘necessary’ wars and killed thousands; the idealists of the 20th century fought ‘just’ wars and killed millions.” Stephen M. Walt (professor of international relations at Harvard University)...
Since Feeding the Homeless Is Illegal, Activists Carry AR-15s to Give Out Food, Supplies
by Matt Agorist | Dec 10, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Dallas, TX — Feeding and clothing the homeless in the land of the free has now become a revolutionary act. Luckily, however, there are still good people willing to carry that act out. In December 2014, the Dallas city council enacted Ordinance No. 29595, which makes...
Jim Grant: The World Created by Upside-Down Interest Rates
by Steven Woskow | May 31, 2019 | Blog
Central banks are trapped. "Five years into the negative rate experiment, and a decade on in radical monetary improvisation, the central bankers are looking for a way back to normalcy. Not finding it, they are casting around for new ways to control what they seem...
Congress Lifts a Stress Off the Financial System
by Eric Schuler | May 31, 2018 | Economics, Featured Articles
Congress has finally taken action to liberalize the nation's financial system. The bill was S. 2155, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act. It passed both houses with a surprising degree of bipartisan support and was signed by President...
The Seen and the Catastrophic Unseen in Our Criminal Justice System
by Radley Balko | Nov 13, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
Thank you. Thank you to the Reason Foundation, and to the judges who saw merit in my work and honored me with this award. It's especially validating to get an award named after Bastiat—an award for which people like Milton Friedman and James Buchanan once served as...
How Paid Parental Leave Accidentally Promotes Inequality
by Eric Schuler | May 17, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
In honor of Mother's Day, Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg called for a new public policy to limit economic opportunities and choices for women. Naturally, she did not phrase it quite like that. But among other policy asks in her pronouncement, Sandberg called for a...
Help That Hurts: The Case of US Food Aid
by Eric Schuler | Mar 22, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
President Trump's discretionary budget proposal includes a $182 million cut to the McGovern-Dole Food for Education program, eliminating the program entirely. Whatever else one thinks of Trump's budget, this is a good idea. It will save taxpayers a small amount of...
02/07/04 – Greg Perry – The Scott Horton Show
by Scott Horton | Feb 7, 2004 | The Scott Horton Show
Philip Dru interviews Greg Perry, the most successful author of books about computers on Earth, and author of the book, Disabling America: The Unintended Consequences of the Government's Protection of the Handicappedabout those consequences....
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Black History Month?
If a Martian social scientist were to visit America, he surely would assume that Black History Month had been concocted by racists. And he'd be right -- for a racist qua racist need not bear ill will toward a particular group. What makes someone a racist is the very...
ESG in Canada
When I talk about ESG it isn’t out of concern for the corporations being regulated, it is out of concern as to how it affects the common man. While many dismiss my concern as a “conspiracy theory” cutting people off from their money and financial institutions is in...
ESG on The Courtenay Turner Podcast
My friend Courtenay Turner invited me on her podcast to get deep into ESG and why it matters.
Reminder: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Almost Started a World War Based on a Lie
On November 15th, the Associated Press reported that "A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people". Since Poland is a member of the North American Treaty Organization, that would mean that America along...
Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
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