Biden’s Vaccine Mandates: It’s about Power
The Biden administration on Thursday announced sweeping new mandates. The new mandates require that all employers with more than one hundred workers require workers to be vaccinated or to test for …
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9/11 Was a Day of Unforgivable Government Failure
Perhaps more than anything else, the rationale given for the necessity of the state—and the necessity of supporting the regime at any given time—is that it “keeps us safe.” This permeates …
Slippery Slope Arguments and Tyranny
In my article last week, I talked about Michael Huemer’s notion of “false fallacies.” These are often listed in logic books as bad arguments, but some of them, Huemer suggests, …
Murray Sabrin’s New Book on Escaping Medical Fascism
On the heels of Biden’s vaccine mandate announcement, Dr. Murray Sabrin joins the show to discuss his new book on escaping the state’s medical fascism. Universal Medical Care from Conception …
The Illusion of American Exceptionalism
After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World TransformedBy Andrew BacevichMetropolitan Books, 2021Xiv + 206 pages Andrew Bacevich, a history professor at Boston University for twenty-three years, has written …
How to Cheat with Cost-Benefit Analysis: Double Count the Benefits
Because my economics courses focus on public policy, I often deal with benefit-cost analyses (BCA) in them. While little discussed, the central idea is simply to identify and include all …
The Absolute State of Money in 2021
Jeff Deist: You recently completed a series of articles for the Mises Institute, which we will publish in book form, on how money works today. Why is it important for …
Why the Fed Is So Desperate to Hide Price Inflation
Speaking at the Jackson Hole meeting on August 27, 2021, Federal Reserve (Fed) chairman Jerome J. Powell indicated that he supported “tapering” toward the end of this year and hastened to …
Rebutting Paul Krugman on the “Austrian” Pandemic
In a recent column for the New York Times, the world’s most famous Keynesian Paul Krugman attacked Austrian business cycle theory (ABCT). In addition to repeating his decades-old claim that …
What Texas’s Unilateral Immigration Policy Tells Us about Washington
Could Texas usher in a uniquely decentralized approach to immigration? Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently embarked on a unique policy drive to have the state government lead the charge on …