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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.
Today’s Americans and Yesteryear’s Americans
My prediction is that Americans, left to their own tendencies, will roar together as giants and will ignore the political and media crybabies.
Let People Try New Drugs
We need new drugs to fight COVID-19 and other diseases. But our government’s approval process makes that too hard.
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 dovetail.
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.
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