It’s Time for a National Divorce

Both spouses have become abusive, verbally and physically. Exchanging blows left and right, both literally and metaphorically speaking. There’s no common ground to be found, and even if there were, …

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Beware the Troop-Withdrawal Bait and Switch

One becomes a hardened cynic when following US foreign policy. Such pessimism is justified: looking at nearly two decades’ worth of nation building abroad and a seemingly shatterproof consensus on …

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A World without Political Leaders?

Manent insists that if political leaders don’t lead society, we will have a society that isn’t led by political leaders. So what? Original Article: “A World without Political Leaders?​​“ This …

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The Upside of Lockdowns: More Saving

Rothbard: “At the outset of every step forward on the road to a more plentiful existence is saving….Without saving and capital accumulation there could not be any striving toward nonmaterial …

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Inflation Breeds Even More Inflation

I. Warning against Fiduciary Media Early in the 20th century, Ludwig von Mises warned against the consequences of granting the government control over the money supply. Such a regime inevitably …

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A Case for One Billion Americans?

One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Biggerby Matthew YglesiasPortfolio Penguin, 2020xx + 267 pages Matthew Yglesias, a cofounder of Vox and frequent writer for it, has some useful insights …

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