How Richard Nixon Wrecked Free Trade
With the capacity to print forever, the US could fund its empire, fund its welfare state, fund its gigantic budget, fund its military, and all without bothering with actually doing much of anything beyond sitting behind screens.
Big Government Doesn’t Want You to Think about “What Is Not Seen”
In Build, Baby, Build, a graphic novel, Caplan uses Bastiat as a character in the present day to show us “what we’re missing”—what is not seen—when it comes to housing deregulation. I
A Ten Point Analysis of The Trump-Bessent Plan to Reduce the U.S. National Debt
Objectivist Jim Brown opines on DOGE, deregulation, drill baby drill, tariffs, lower taxes, Immigration, a lower dollar exchange rate, lower interest rates, restructuring US Debt, & monetizing US assets, possibly through a sovereign wealth fund.
Christians Fleeing Persecution Blocked from US Entry by Trump White House
On his first day as president, Trump signed an executive order to suspend the United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP), barring potentially thousands of Christian refugees from entering the United States.
No Good Reason to Revoke Birthright Citizenship
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” – Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
What If the Federal Government Begins Defying Court Orders?
Would a determined executive ever fall back in the end on the core power asymmetry between the two branches—it has guns, and the judges don’t?
Fifty Achievements In Fifty Days
I’ve chronicled 50 changes that the Trump administration has made that have made life dramatically better in record time.
NPR Should Not Be Subsidized by Taxpayers
It would not matter whether NPR was liberally biased or conservatively biased. The bottom line is that if politicians (bureaucrats) control the funding of the news, then the news likely will be politicized.
Disney’s Snow White and The Post-Lockdown Disorientation in the Arts
Disney has misread the room for a very long time, and seems implausibly slow to course correct. One might expect market signals would be enough to shock the internal culture of an enterprise. Ideology, however, can be more powerful than even failing profitability statements.
CAPITALISM REVIEW
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- “Warm Collectivism” vs. “Frigid” Individualism
- CNN Scott Jennings on the “epidemic of political vigilantism”
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- Yaron Brook on the Arrest of Collectivist Dictator Maduro
- No Free Market: Government Intevention in American Medicine
- Bezos: Washington Post Will Change Course To Defend Free-Markets
- Justin Amash on Birthright Citizenship: Only an Article V Amendment Can Change It
- Second January 6, 2021 Report