The Intellectual Incoherence of Conservatism
Modern conservatism, in the United States and Europe, is confused and distorted. Under the influence of representative democracy and with the transformation of the U.S. and Europe into mass democracies from World War I, conservatism was transformed from an anti-egalitarian,
In Defense of Defaulting on the National Debt
With the acknowledged national debt now a politically and economically unpayable $30 trillion (in reality, its unfunded liabilities are far greater), Americans should start to become acclimated to the realities of the United States’ eventual, inevitable default. While it may seem
144 Million Americans Now Live in States with Legal Recreational Marijuana
Advocates for marijuana legalization won another victory last month when Governor Dan McKee signed new legislation legalizing recreational marijuana in the the state. New Hampshire—where cannabis is "only" decriminalized and legal for medical purposes—is now the only state in New
Juneteenth and Secular Holidays as Tool of the Regime
Last year Congress officially declared Juneteenth a federal holiday. While Very Serious talking heads attempted desperately to convince those that would listen that Juneteenth was a long-celebrated American holiday, the reality is that it was largely unknown around the nation prior to
Powell’s “Soft Landing” Is Impossible
After more than a decade of chained stimulus packages and extremely low rates, with trillions of dollars of monetary stimulus fueling elevated asset valuations and incentivizing an enormous leveraged bet on risk, the idea of a controlled explosion or a
The Curious Case of Ilya Shapiro
It's been a memorable spring for Ilya Shapiro. Mr. Shapiro, a longtime legal scholar and VP at the Cato Institute, was hired by Georgetown University Law Center at the beginning of 2022. In February he would join his well-known colleague Randy Barnett at the
The Great Crash of 2022
We are now well past the corona crisis of 2020, and most of the restrictions around the world have been repealed or loosened. However, the long-term consequences of arbitrary and destructive corona policies are still with us—in fact, we are
A Triple-Barreled Gun Is Destroying African Economies: Inflation, Government Debt, and Taxes
Today it is conclusive that Africa's socialist experiments failed, as did the state-led development approach. Not only was the heavily statist approach unable to develop African economies, but it made poverty worse. In this context of repressive state-driven economic systems, most
How Money Printing Destroyed Argentina and Can Destroy Others
The most dangerous words in monetary policy and economics are “this time is different.” Argentine politicians’ big mistake is to believe that inflation is multicausal and that everything is solved with increasing doses of interventionism. The consumer price index in Argentina experienced
An Austrian Theory of Environmental Economics
Austrian economics lacks a formalized, self-conscious theory of environmental economics. But in fact all of the major elements of such a theory already exist and in that sense what is needed is to piece together the relevant aspects of Austrian