The completely just proposition that the worker is to receive the entire value of his product can be reasonably interpreted to mean either that he is to receive the full present value of his product now or that he is to get the entire future value in the future. But...
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Thank the Feds for a Million COVID Dead
by Jim Bovard | Dec 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
Last Thursday, The Wall Street Journal exposed how federal agencies helped carry out the biggest scientific con of the century. In early 2020, when the COVID pandemic was starting to ravage America, federal bureaucrats and politicians rushed to suppress any suggestion...
The Year History Bit Back
by Brad Pearce | Dec 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
2024 marked the 35th anniversary of the publication of Francis Fukuyama’s famous essay, “The End of History?” in The National Interest. Suffice to say, its thesis looks more wrong than ever. It must be acknowledged that Fukuyama’s arguments were somewhat more complex...
Drones Run Amok
by Laurie Calhoun | Dec 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Drones, drones, everywhere drones. For a few weeks, clusters of drones of unknown provenance were recently seen flying in the skies above New Jersey. Local, state, and federal authorities claimed that they did not know whose drones they were. The expression “baseless...
U.S. Foreign Policy 101: Rebranding Villains into Partners
by Ted Snider | Dec 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Maybe Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), who is now the leader of Syria, really has changed. Maybe he has matured, as he told CNN, as if his years as an al-Qaeda terrorist leader were a youthful indiscretion. But the world cannot simply...
TGIF: Social Cooperation Versus Violence
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 27, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The chilling photo of a hooded man cold-bloodedly executing a health-insurance CEO on a busy New York City street should make any decent person pause and reflect. Anyone who even glimpses the role of social cooperation in making life better and longer felt sickened,...
Praying For a Christmas Truce in Ukraine
by Ted Snider | Dec 24, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
On December 11, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, as one of the last things he would do at the end of his term as the European Union’s rotating president, said he had proposed a Christmas truce between Ukraine and Russia. "At the end of the Hungarian EU...
A Plea for Empathy
by Rachael Nelson | Dec 23, 2024 | Featured Articles
It feels like half the world is at war, with the other half deciding which war (and which side) they should join. Billions of people are suffering, and it's becoming easier to look around and have trouble finding anything to be thankful for. We live in an increasingly...
TGIF: The Unfortunately Forgotten Sumner
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 20, 2024 | Economics, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Some things haven't changed since 1883. In that year Yale University professor William Graham Sumner, the anti-imperialist laissez-faire liberal and pioneer of American sociology, noticed that "we are told every day that great social problems stand before us and...
How the Captive Media Divides Us
by Thomas Eddlem | Dec 19, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
Most political differences in America today aren’t a result of moral differences, or even policy opinions. Rather, they are generated by divergent media consumption. There’s a huge difference between those whose news comes primarily from the corporate Big Five...
Forty Years Sniping at Leviathan
by Jim Bovard | Dec 19, 2024 | Featured Articles
I have spent decades trying to turn political dirt into philosophic gold. I have yet to discover the alchemist’s trick, but I still have fun with the dirt. I was born in Iowa and raised in the mountains of Virginia. Wheeling and dealing with old coins as a teenager...
America’s Origins of Russophobia
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Dec 18, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For those that grew up in the United States in the 1990s and 2000s, the explosion of Russophobia over the past decade likely came as something of a surprise. A brief survey of the history of Russophobia, however, reveals that the decade and a half after the end of the...
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White House To Approve Massive Weapons Sale to Israel
Sources speaking about the $8 billion arms deal said the Biden administration “informally” informed Congress. Before President Joe Biden leaves office, he will approve one more massive arms sale to Israel. The $8 billion sale of missiles and artillery shells comes as...
NYT: UNRWA Preparing for Israel To Shut Down Aid Distribution in Gaza, West Bank
After Israel passed a series of laws that target the UN’s Palestinian Aid Agency (UNRWA), the organization is now planning to terminate its operations in the occupied territories. Officials are warning that Tel Aviv’s shuttering of UNRWA will have catastrophic...
Zelensky Believes Trump Will Be ‘Decisive,’ Capable of Stopping Putin
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky indicated that he expects to continue to receive support from Washington after Donald Trump enters the White House later this month. Trump’s return to the Oval Office has been a source of anxiety for some of Kiev’s backers as the...
Fracture in US Coalition to Support Kiev as Slovakia Threatens to Cut Ukraine Energy Supply
NATO member Slovakia is threatening to cut off its supply of energy to Ukraine over Kiev ending a gas transit agreement with Moscow. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico called Kiev’s move an act of "sabotage by Zelensky." In a video posted to his social media page on...
Israel To Surge Funding For Global Influence Operations
Tel Aviv is planning to increase its funding for global propaganda efforts by 20 times. The surge in spending comes as Israel's public image is sagging around the world over the onslaught in Gaza. A new budget for the Israeli Foreign Ministry includes $150 million...
White House Calls For Syria Elections ‘As Soon As Possible’ In Response to Julani’s Four-Year Timeline
A US official explained that the Joe Biden administration was hoping Syria could hold elections “as soon as possible” following the ouster of long-time president Bashar al-Assad. The de facto ruler in Damascus, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, said elections could take place...
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Competition Is Cooperation
"The pricing process is a social process. It is consummated by an interaction of all members of the society. All collaborate and cooperate, each in the particular role he has chosen for himself in the framework of the division of labor. Competing in cooperation and...
Anti-War Blog – “The world is so beautiful. Let me leave calmly…”
“That's it, mum, goodbye,” he is dying, dead, a Ukrainian soldier in his last moments caught on helmet camera makes his peace. The eight minutes leading up to his death have been shared on social media, a close combat struggle between him and his Russian counterpart....
Crucial Economic Calculation
"The advocates of totalitarianism consider 'capitalism' a ghastly evil, an awful illness that came upon mankind. In the eyes of Marx it was an inevitable stage of mankind’s evolution, but for all that the worst of evils; fortunately salvation is imminent and will free...
Which Came First: The Individual or the Group?
"It is illusory to believe that it is possible to visualize collective wholes. They are never visible; their cognition is always the outcome of the understanding of the meaning which acting men attribute to their acts. We can see a crowd, i.e., a multitude of people....
2025 New Years Resolution: What is a Carnivore Diet? How to Get Started!!
https://youtu.be/tn_-gkaDcog Here is an excellent introduction to the diet which helped me lose 110 lbs. Check out Laura Spath on YouTube, videos like this did more for me than every doctors appointment I have ever had, and are free to watch. Hopefully RFK Jr. will...
Visas For Truckers w/Gord
Gord, famed trucker and writer, is back to discuss the topics surrounding his last couple of stories found on The Blaze and Newsweek. Why is Biden passing out VISAs for truckers? How has deregulation disadvantaged skilled truckers? Is your family more at risk when on...