Why Empowering Organized Labor Will Definitely Not Help the Economy
Paul Krugman has a very prominent perch from the editorial page at the New York Times and he has used his influence, among other things, to shill for two things …
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Who’s to Blame for Normalizing One-Man Rule?
Unfortunately, the corporate press and public health officials have determined that unilateral rule by executive decree, unimpeded by any conception of individual freedom, is necessary to respond to the coronavirus. …
The Factory System of the Early Nineteenth Century
[Written in 1925, this essay was published in Economica in 1926 and became more widely known when F.A. Hayek included it in Capitalism and the Historians (1954).] The early British …
No, Dogecoin Does Not Compete with Bitcoin
Elon Musk’s dogecoin tweets have given the coin a nice run, sending its price from fractions of a penny—where it traded for roughly 8 years—to 40 cents on April 20th …
Biden’s Amtrak Infrastructure Scam
Profit-seeking entrepreneurs move factors of production to their highest and most economical uses. Amtrak, on the other hand, is diverting useful factors of production from higher use values to lower-valued …
Ross Benes on America’s Rural Rebellion
Politics degrades our lives in innumerable ways, from personal relationships to work to places of worship. Even sports and movies now seem to have become deeply politicized. The political class …
Is Rawls Stupid? A Lesson in Close Reading
I’ve often argued against John Rawls’s theory of justice, and readers who see my title might be thinking to themselves, “Not another post on Rawls!” These readers can rest easy; …
The Biggest Threat to US Hegemony: China, Russia, or Debt?
China and Russia are trying to build a Eurasion bloc that can break free of any American spheres of influence. The American regime obviously opposes this, but money printing and …
A Dozen Dangerous Presumptions of Crisis Policymaking
Congress and the president have adopted many critically important policies in great haste during brief periods of perceived national emergency. During the first “hundred days” of the Franklin D. Roosevelt …
You Won’t Learn Much about Fascism in this Book on “Fascism”
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Themby Jason StanleyRandom House, 2018xix + 218 pages Jason Stanley, a noted philosopher of language who teaches at Yale, wishes to render …