Gender Issues Depicted in ‘Period. End of Sentence.’
Menstruation. Did you feel a sense of awkwardness and shyness when you heard this word? Did you whisper it in your friend’s ear when you got it? Did you feel uncomfortable sharing about your periods with your male peers? Or
San Jose’s Gun Tax Has Nothing to Do with Reducing Crime
California politicians say "gun owners should cover the costs of gun violence." Apparently, holding actual criminals responsible for their own misdeeds is too much work in California. Original Article: "San Jose's Gun Tax Has Nothing to Do with Reducing Crime" This Audio
Woke Capitalism Is a Monopoly Game
In 2018, Ross Douthat of the New York Times introduced the phrase “woke capital.” Essentially, Douthat suggested that woke capitalism works by substituting symbolic value for economic value. Under woke capitalism, corporations offer workers rhetorical placebos in lieu of costlier
3 Ways Biden’s Election Was a Good Thing
In this episode, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop consider the counterfactual of what would have happened if Donald Trump were still president. What would the political landscape look like if it were a Republican administration dealing with historic unemployment? How would
The Myths of Reaganomics
I come to bury Reaganomics, not to praise it. How well has Reaganomics achieved its own goals? Perhaps the best way of discovering those goals is to recall the heady days of Ronald Reagan's first campaign for the presidency, especially before
Elections Now Decide Who Can Operate Your Car
With the approval of Biden's infrastructure bill, it now turns out the US government is even in control of a "kill switch" that could disable your car if you are deemed "impaired." Likely few voters realized the 2020 election was
The Corrupt Bargain and the Jacksonian Revolution
The election of 1824 pits the Old Republicans against the entrenched interests of one-party rule in America. In this episode of Liberty vs. Power, Dr. Patrick Newman and Tho Bishop discuss the collapse of the first party system of the
Making Money Myths
Twice now, on this forum back in 2013, and on Twitter more recently (see here and here), I've taken Yale economics professor Gary Gorton's publications to task for misrepresenting the historical record of private currency systems. In particular, I've criticized him
The Growing Pile of Public Debt Shows that Inflation Is Here to Stay
After more than a decade of subdued consumer price inflation despite gigantic monetary and fiscal stimuli, last year’s surge in consumer prices took most central banks by surprise. First, they tried to dismiss it as “transitory” and caused by pandemic-related
Melting off our survival: Global water crisis
There is nothing more important to living beings today than air and water. Nonetheless, every country, from the United States to Africa, Europe to Australia, is having difficulty obtaining water for its daily needs. We’ve reached a point when identifying