Free College is Bad for Students
One of the anomalies of the 2016 presidential election was the fact that an old white guy from Vermont was […]
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Who Cares Who the Fed Chairman Is?
“He who tries to borrow ‘money’ needs it solely for procuring other economic goods.” – Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money […]
Will the Timeline of the Vegas Shooting Ever Stabilize?
The surprisingly malleable timeline of the Las Vegas shooting reminds me of this quotation from George Orwell’s 1984: “History has […]
The Tyranny of Administrative Power
As freedom erodes, we look for causes. We blame a succession of presidents eager to issue more executive orders and […]
Female Jihadis – Full Measure News
To borrow from an old phrase, it turns out that behind every successful radical Islamic terrorist, is a woman, a […]
The Scandalous Truth about Obamacare Is Laid Bare
It’s not just that Obamacare is financially unsustainable. More seriously, it is intellectually unsustainable, even though this truth has been […]
The Case Against Overcriminalization
Lavrenti Beria, the infamous head of the Soviet secret police under Joseph Stalin, supposedly once said, “Show me the man […]
The World Is Getting Freer, Faster
Earlier today, the Fraser Institute published the 21st edition of its annual Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) report. The Canadian think-tank uses 42 data […]
City Governments Are Selling off Land Lot by Lot
Last fall, the Arizona Republic ran a huge expose of a strange problem in the city. The city owns 1,400 […]
The Rich Are Being Pillaged, and Everyone Suffers
To observe that a tax reform primarily helps the rich is supposed to doom it. It should be the opposite: […]
Socialism Shouldn’t Be Let Off the Hook for Nightmares Like North Korea
Socialism is popular in Britain, especially among the young. Survey after survey confirms it. More precisely, socialism is popular in the abstract. It is popular […]
Tax Hells, Not Tax Havens, Are the Problem
Not everybody appreciates my defense of tax havens. A Clinton Administration official accused me of disloyalty to America. The OECD threatened to throw me […]
Progressive Policies Are Great If You Don’t Care About the Future
Suppose that every human being was today to learn, and to accept this knowledge beyond any doubt, that the world […]
The Australia Model for Gun Control Is Useless
In the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas, which left dozens dead and hundreds wounded, a great number […]
How Gun-Free Campuses Victimize Women
My college experience didn’t go as planned: I was the victim of rape. It was something I thought could never […]
An Introduction to ‘The Satoshi Revolution’
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing […]