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POLITICS
Government Failure
Scour the newspaper any day of the week and you will read stories detailing the many failures of the federal, state, and local governments or agencies, and of their stupendous ability to commit the same mistakes over and over again. Yet these agencies are the one that people turn to in times of troubles or needs.
Ten Varieties of Anti-Capitalism
The ten varieties of anti-capitalism are anarchism, medievalism, nationalism, socialism, communism, fascism, populism, racism, environmentalism, and subjectivism.
Supposed “Varieties” of Capitalism
Does capitalism exist in “varieties,” as scholars began to insist two decades ago, or is it a unique social system fundamentally unlike all others? If there is a “pure” form of capitalism, what alterations or transformations render it impure? How impure must it become before we should cease calling it capitalism and call it something else instead?
Joe ‘You Ain’t Black’ Biden: Please See ‘Uncle Tom’
“You got more questions but I tell ya, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
The White George Floyd and The Hypocrisy of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ Organizations
How cultural Marxists coopted the phrase “black lives matter” to instigate protests and riots to push a racist, anti-capitalist narrative to gain political power, while making Americans of all colors worse off.
Businesses Cannot Eradicate The Collectivism of Racism with ‘Reverse Racism’
Only in a society where individual rights are recognized and the government’s sole role is to protect them, will racism be eradicated.
Individualism, Not Group Identity Politics, Is the Answer To America’s Crisis
We must judge ourselves and others by the content of our character, not by the color of our skin, our gender, socio-economic class, or any other group characteristic.
America: A Racist Nation?
The recent murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis was ghastly and reminds us of the hideous racial injustice directed against black Americans in the nation’s past.
The True Plight of Black Americans is Not “Systemic Racism”
The true plight of black people has little or nothing to do with the police or what has been called “systemic racism.” Instead, we need to look at the responsibilities of those running our big cities.
Tragedies of Our Time: Viral Pandemics, Economy Lockdowns, and Racial Identity Politics
An old adage says that tragedies often come in threes. Certainly, the first half of 2020 has seen a version of this.
How Populism Turns a Constitutional Republic Into A Democracy
Populism is what happens when a republic becomes a democracy, and politicians must curry the favor of voters in order to win office.
The George Floyd Riots: Where’s Black Lives Matter When You Need Them?
Black lives matter. Black businesses, not so much.
Freedom Requires Resisting Coronavirus Pessimism
If there is a chance to not only pull society away from the social and economic abyss towards which it is moving, but return it to a path more in the direction of personal liberty, economic freedom, and equal individual rights under partial rule of law and constitutionally limited government, it requires resisting the pessimism that all is lost and irreversible, and having the courage and willingness to try to restore the free society.
Shutdown’s Silver Lining: A Taste of Homeschooling
A silver lining to this pandemic is that now more parents are learning about their options outside the government schooling system.
Individual Freedom is the Answer to This COVID-19 Crisis
We must embrace individual freedom as the answer to this crisis. End the lockdowns, and end the collectivist approach to solving this crisis.
Bryan Adams is Not a Racist, But a Victim of “Social Justice”
Whether one agrees with Adam’s views on “wet markets,” the origin of COVID-19, or the benefits of veganism, the “social justice” attacks on Bryan Adams as a “racist” are misguided. Far from being a racist, Bryan Adams is a victim. Bryan Adam’s accusers owe him an apology.
You’ll Freeze in the Dark!
If we keep giving the state more power over our lives, we will freeze in the dark.
Governments Don’t Have Magic Wands To Ward off Asymmetric Information
The kind of reasoning that underpins the tired old asymmetric information bogeyman in health care falls straight into the behavioral symmetry between market participants and policy makers that is a core contribution of modern public choice economics: it is not believable to submit that governments have magic wands.
Capitalism’s Enemies Use COVID-19 Crisis as an Excuse for a Wealth Tax
Leftist politicians who want to get into our pocketbooks are beginning to argue that the COVID-19 pandemic is the best argument for a wealth tax.
Could Rome Have Had an Industrial Revolution?
Is it possible to envision Rome experiencing an industrial revolution?
Canada’s Government-Run Health Care System Crumbled under COVID-19
As for Medicare for All, the COVID-19 crisis in Canada has shown the brutal consequences of government-run health care: shortages just when you need care the most.
A Free-Market Capitalism Agenda for Post-Coronavirus Recovery
The collectivism virus need not destroy us, if we immunize ourselves with the philosophy of liberty and market liberalism. What we need is herd immunity, but that requires as many of us as possible to spread the ideas of freedom to as many of our fellow citizens as is possible.
The Conquest of America by Communist China
In implementing these types of dictates and commands, with the implied attitude that government officials have no restraints on their controls and decrees other than the ones they decide to impose on themselves, American politicians are no different than their implicit mentors in Beijing, China.
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