by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Jul 23, 2022 | Arts
Every highly productive person – we don’t even have to speak of geniuses here – often ends up surrounded by resentful and mediocre people who have too much time on their hands. They use whatever limited talents they have to plot, confound, confuse, and ultimately wreck their betters. The demand to “comply” is always the watchword: it’s a tool of destruction.
by Mark Da Cunha | Jul 21, 2022 | LAW
Banning uninfected foreigners, like Novak Djokovic, from the US because they are unvaccinated is anti-science as vaccination does not stop the spread of covid-19, and anti-American as it violates the principles of individual freedom & choice that America was founded upon.
by Brian Phillips | Jul 21, 2022 | Housing
On the one hand, housing advocates and public officials decry the state’s housing shortage. On the other hand, they continue to advocate for more controls and restrictions to be piled onto the shoulders of housing producers.
by Institute for Energy Research | Jul 21, 2022 | Energy
The demands that Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is placing on pipeline developers is significant and with no timeline, the uncertainty created is delaying new projects that are needed for both export and domestic purposes at a time when the administration is using every tool in its “whole of government” approach to make domestic energy harder to finance, produce, transport and consume.
by George Reisman | Jul 20, 2022 | Economics
The uniformity-of-profit principle explains how the activities of all the separate business enterprises are harmoniously coordinated so that capital is not invested excessively in the production of some items while leaving the production of other items unprovided for.
by Brian Phillips | Jul 20, 2022 | Housing
The Progressive framework relegates the individual to second-class status. The collective reigns supreme.
by Raymond C. Niles | Jul 19, 2022 | Energy
After thwarting the oil industry by banning pipelines and new oil and gas leases after his inauguration, Biden’s recent proposals are watered-down varieties of the failed policies that created the multiple gas crises that rocked the nation in the 1970s.
by Ramesh Thakur | Jul 19, 2022 | Healthcare
Among the best tennis players of all time, and also possibly the healthiest human being on the planet who is obsessive-compulsive about his fitness, Djokovic was unable to play in the Australian Open because he refused to take a Covid vaccine. Now he faces the repeat prospect of the Biden administration barring him from entering to compete in the US Open, even though unvaccinated Americans can compete.
by Brian Phillips | Jul 18, 2022 | Free Speech
Social media companies are not a threat to free speech. Governments that do not respect property rights are.