Can Regulation Ever Be Reasonable?
In the big picture, the best way for the government to protect my safety would be for it to protect my freedom to look after myself.
In the big picture, the best way for the government to protect my safety would be for it to protect my freedom to look after myself.
To understand these negative views and pessimistic attitudes, we have to first ask, what do these young people think “capitalism” means?
What should have been a minor economic downturn became the Great Depression because government interventions prevented the market process from working.
Ludwig Von Mises explained why with his Austrian theory of Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle.
Both Biden and his predecessor, President Barack Obama, promised that they had Israel’s back, but it now appears that they are painting a target on its back at a time of its greatest vulnerability.
For Israel, the issue is: keep fighting or die. Our universities and intellectuals should continue to support them.
Conceptions of “fairness” pursued through taking from those who have produced more and giving it those who have produced less or nothing are morally unjust and economically destructive.
Israel is not Hamas, and the rules of the ICC are not the same for democracies that live under the rule of law and terrorist groups that live under the rule of lawlessness. This distinction is central to the legitimacy of the ICC and its rule of complementarity. Without recognizing it, the ICC would become a partisan “court” of politics rather than a neutral court of objective law.
Prosecutors cannot simply make up new crimes by jerry-rigging a concoction of existing crimes, some of which are barred by the statute of limitations others of which are beyond the jurisdiction of state prosecutors.
Berkeley economist Brad DeLong has an exceptional ability to get just about everything on the 20th century fantastically wrong in his book “Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century.”