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MARKETS
The Freedom of Production and Trade Under Capitalism (Part 3 of 10)
An appropriate vehicle for the establishment of the freedom of production and trade, whether all at once or gradually, would be the establishment of one last regulatory-type agency: the Deregulation Agency.
FED is Wrong: Inflation is Not Just About Rising Prices
All eyes on Jackson Hole this week as the Fed tackles inflation.
Profit Over Principle?
Are principles and profits really in conflict?
Books: Henry Hazlitt’s “Economics In One Lesson” Reviewed by The Capitalist Professor, George Reisman
There is no subject that more urgently needs to be understood in the world today than economics. Our well-being, indeed, our very lives, depend on the production of wealth.
POLITICS
Peace Requires Capitalism
As Rand observes, capitalism is the only system that makes peaceful co-existence among people and countries possible.
A Pro-Capitalist Foreign Policy (Part 7 of 10)
In the present-day world, a procapitalist foreign policy is indistinguishable from a pro-American foreign policy.
Abolition of Income and Inheritance Taxes Under Capitalism (Part 5 of 10)
A possible way to start on the elimination of the income/inheritance tax right now would be to fight for the immediate adoption of a universal exemption of at least 51 percent of everyone’s income from federal, state, and local income taxation under all circumstances.
Capitalism and the Abolition of the Welfare State (Part 4 of 10)
The savings of individuals would steadily replace taxes as the source of provision for old age.
CULTURE
The Separation of State from Religion, Science, and Education (Part 8 of 10)
The system of public education could be abolished over the course of a generation, in a way that need not impose financial hardship on the parents of any child alive at the time of the abolition’s commencement.
Evil Flourishes When Reason is Abandoned
. Charlie Kirk was correct when he said, “When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence.” But it is even more accurate to say, as Ayn Rand pointed out, “When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.”
Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man by Timothy Sandefur
Frederick Douglass unique contribution to American political philosophy is well summarized in the contrast between the mottos he and Garrison used for their newspapers. Instead of Garrison’s call for separation, “no union with slaveholders,” Douglass demanded equality: “All rights for all. ”
Campus Progressives Preach Tolerance — and Produce Violence
Defining words as a form of violence creates a permission structure for actual violence.
LAW
US Department of Justice’s Indictment of Former FBI Director James Comey
The nonpartisan reality is that it is too early to make a full assessment of the merits or demerits of the case.
Kimmel Suspension and Freedom of Speech
Government officials need not act directly to censor speech.
Why Broadcasters Still Have “Junior Varsity” First Amendment Rights
Networks and local affiliates try to avoid programming that might strike FCC regulators as misleading, tasteless, or shocking. The FCC has never disavowed its authority over content, and the sword of Damocles still hangs over every licensee.
Government Shouldn’t Play “Truth Police”
President Trump and others in his administration can and have pushed back against speech they disagree with and speech they believe to be false. That is their right, so long as their counterspeech does not cross the line to threats of government power.
SCI-TECH
The Separation of State from Religion, Science, and Education (Part 8 of 10)
The system of public education could be abolished over the course of a generation, in a way that need not impose financial hardship on the parents of any child alive at the time of the abolition’s commencement.
How to Unleash Small Modular Reactors
Testimony to the House Oversight Committee on “The New Atomic Age: Advancing America’s Energy Future.”
The Inventive Period of Capitalism in America
The so-called “Gilded Age” of “Robber Barrons” is better named as the Inventive Period of Capitalism.
Green New Scam
The House BBB’s “termination” of solar/wind subsidies is overly generous, contrary to lobbyist lies.
WORLD
Peace in the Middle East is Made Possible By The Overwhelming Military Might of Israel and America
The only response terrorists understand is making them pay a disproportionately heavy price for endangering Israeli life.
When Soviet Power Crumbled: The Failed Hard-Line Coup Attempt of August 1991
The demise of the Communist Party and the Soviet system was one of the momentous events in modern history.
Recognition of a Palestinian State Rewards Terrorism
The threat by France, England, Canada, Australia, and other American allies to “recognize” a nonexistent Palestinian “state” has incentivized Hamas to reject US peace deals and has thus endangered the lives of the 20 living hostages.
The Economic Case Against Foreign Aid
Proponents of foreign aid say it can help lift countries out of poverty, but the evidence tells a different story.