Biden’s “Historic Growth” Is No Such Thing.
I was surprised to see a tweet from President Joe Biden showing the gross domestic product (GDP) of the United States for 2021 compared to the average GDP growth under other presidents. The tweet stated, “This didn’t happen by accident. Because of
Kazakhstan’s struggle: The conclusion
For three decades, he was everywhere. The capital’s airport, a city and some of the best universities and schools were named after him, and at the center of the Nur-Sultan city, he constructed a white steel tower with a gold
The Myth of Efficient Government Service
[This excerpt from Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market is an explanation and elaboration of points first made in Ludwig von Mises's Bureaucracy—and provides an excellent example of how Murray Rothbard's treatise built on Mises's to employ and
Why Austrians Stress Ordinal Utility
David Friedman recently posted a critique of Austrian economics as laid out in the Rothbardian tradition. In his essay, Friedman repeats a claim he has made before—namely that economists used to agree with the Austrians that utility was ordinal, but
Wokism Could Provoke a Global Anti-American Backlash
“What starts here changes the world.” The University of Texas at Austin’s motto not only applies to the research university’s overall impact on world affairs, but also to the outsized role cultural and political developments within the United States have on
Kazakhstan – A Brontosaurus no longer?
On the 2nd of January, Kazakhstan (a country we don’t hear about often) erupted in protest, surprising everyone. The fact of the matter is, if I played a ‘Which dinosaur are you?’ game with the Central Asian countries, Kazakhstan would
John Hopkins Study: Lockdowns Only Reduce Mortality by 0.2%
"Lockdowns" for purposes of controlling the spread of covid have always been morally reprehensible. During 2020, police in American communities were actively assisting politicians in essentially confiscating the private property of business owners who refused to close down their businesses. Police in Idaho arrested
War as Spoliation
A man (and the same thing may be said of a people) may procure the means of existence in two ways,—by creating them, or by stealing them. Each of these two great sources of acquisition presents a variety of methods. We may
The Media War on Canadian Truckers: Is Freedom Public Enemy Number One?
The denigration of the Canadian trucker protest convoy exemplifies how freedom is now the biggest villain of the covid-19 pandemic. A Washington Post cartoonist portrayed the trucker convoy as “fascism” incarnate while another Post column derided the “toxic ‘Freedom Convoy.’” Anyone
Your History Teacher Lied About the “Era of Good Feelings”
Virginia's stranglehold over American politics continues with President James Monroe. While high school textbooks refer to this period of one-party rule as the "Era of Good Feelings," the reality is the Second Bank of the United States offers some of