We need new drugs to fight COVID-19 and other diseases. But our government’s approval process makes that too hard.
POLITICS
The Coronavirus Doesn’t Override the Constitution
Politicians rush to limit our choices in the name of “keeping us safe.”
Universal Basic Income Makes Welfare More Efficient, Which is Bad, Dummy
Sadly, conservatives and libertarians are perpetuating this myth that the UBI will replace the overgrown welfare system, or serve as a substantial alternative.
Why The COVID-19 Economic Lockdowns Must End
A wholesale economic lockdown in a pandemic does not protect but violates rights.
Freedom Is Indivisible, Which Is Why All Types Are Now Eroding
The point of the principle of indivisibility is to remind us that the various freedoms rise or fall together, even if with various lags, even if some freedom, for a time, seems to be rising as others fall; in whatever direction the freedoms move, eventually they tend to…
Fixing College Academic Corruption
Grievance scholars, from gender studies, queer, sexuality and critical race studies, bully students, administrators, into adhering to their worldview.
De-Globalization vs. Global Capitalism: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic
If we want economic prosperity and human flourishing, we need to understand capitalism and advocate for it globally—and to shun countries like China that continue to violate individual rights.
Capitalism Did Not Fail; It Can Save Us
Riding out storms and sharing risks across billions of people is a feature, not a bug, and the affluent capitalist nature of our institutions puts us in a better position to deal with them.
FDA is a Demonstration of The Failure of Government (“Universal”) Regulated Medicine
The COVID-19 crisis is the result of decades of FDA rule.
Manipulation Through Racial Hoaxes
It may be perplexing to some, but I believe that our nation has made great progress in matters of race, so much so that imaginary racism and racial hoaxes must be found.
Make Americans Free Again
The press conference President Donald Trump should hold now
Crisis, Leviathan, and the Odd Libertarian Sanction
Libertarians are right that the size, scope and power of government expand amid crises, but there’s no necessity to this, as they assume, and they have no remedy – even during crises – because they hate the state more than statism; but a new book takes a better ap…
Unsung Heroes of the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic
Government’s rules often make it harder for private actors to help people. In a crisis, America’s unsung heroes are people who overcome that.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: One Word of Truth Outweighs The World
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie,” he said. “One word of truth outweighs the world.”
Trump’s Contradictory Statements on the COVID-19 Pandemic Inflame People’s Uncertainty, Fear, and Panic
In a time of crisis we need leaders to communicate openly, frankly, and truthfully.
Crony Altruism: What’s Inside The $2.3 Trillion 2020 Bailout
This bailout is quite unfair to those relatively few states that are responsible with their finances. Through this federal action, taxpayers in those states have to bail out the government officials and citizens of irresponsible states.
Why Does No Stockpile Adequate to Combat COVID-19 Exist?
Because nobody had an incentive to stockpile PPE or other medical equipment.
Deregulation Can Reduce The Costs of The American Health Care System
Three simple reforms: (1) posted prices for procedures; (2) Goodman-esque health savings accounts and high-deductible insurance; (3) age rather than community rating.
Life After The Coronavirus, Freedom or Despotism?
Fundamental to everything that governments have been doing is the presumption that the crisis can only be handled and solved through a comprehensive system of political command and control.
Say No To Bailouts and Subsidies
We are setting ourselves up to become Japan when it suffered more than two “lost decades” of weak or no economic growth.
A Free-Market Solution For Resolving The Coronavirus Pandemic
Leave people free to make their own choices and allow the free market to work its miracle of fulfilling the urgent demands of the moment to save lives, supply very needed goods and services, and find profitable ways of keeping those goods flowing and jobs existing to ma…
Government Regulation of Medicine Created The Coronavirus Pandemic
Why weren’t there enough Wuhan Corona Virus (COVID-19) tests? Because our government insists on control of medical innovation.
Why Americans Should Not Abolish The Electoral College
For more than two centuries the Electoral College has encouraged coalition building, given a voice to both big and small states, and discouraged voter fraud.
“Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death!”
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
Incarceration, Monetization, and Nationalization Can’t Preserve Our Health or Wealth
Evidence is mounting that the Wuhan China virus (“COVID-19”) won’t prove as deadly as first projected; yet there’s still a high level of hysteria and an ominous spread of deleterious economic and public health policies, amounting to incarceration (indiscriminate q…
Video: Philosophy and The Co-Vid19 Pandemic
An illuminating discussion by philosopher’s Onkar Ghate and Greg Salmieri, which takes a “big picture” philosophical analysis on the coronavirus pandemic.
The Price of Statism: Flattening the Economy Because of The COVID-19 Virus
I fear the kind of government that can shut down public gatherings and centrally plan healthcare and everything else. I fear it much more than a virus.
Socialism’s Past: Senator Bernie Sanders’ Call for Socialism
Bernie Sanders’ statements are not that different from those of Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Chavez and other tyrants.
Red Tape vs. Your Health: How Regulation Botched Coronavirus Testing
Highly restrictive government regulations have had the unintended consequence of shutting down tests that could detect outbreaks and save lives.
COVID-19 Response: Why Should the U.S. Copy China Rather Than South Korea?
The South Korean government has brought about superior outcomes than the much heavier handed, authoritarian measures of China, Italy, the U.S., and virtually every other afflicted nation.
Individual Rights vs. Statist Wishes: So-Called “Right to Health Care”
In order for government to provide medical services to someone who cannot afford it, it must use intimidation, threats, and coercion to take the earnings of another American to provide that service.
Moral Hazard
Although “moral hazard” is an insurance term, it applies to other government policies besides insurance.
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