Slippery Slope Arguments and Tyranny
Some slippery slope arguments are a case of bad reasoning, but those presented by Mises and Hayek are not among them. Original Article: "Slippery Slope Arguments and Tyranny" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.
The Fed Is Helping Facilitate Trailer Park Evictions
The Federal Reserve is helping corporate real estate investors evict poor people from mobile home parks. NPR highlighted the growing number of mobile home part evictions. According to the report, real estate investors continue to buy up mobile home parks across the
Against Biden’s Mandates
Contra Mr. Biden, this is entirely about freedom and personal choice. Original Article: "Against Biden's Mandates" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.
Critical Race Theory Is a Direct Attack on Market Freedom
Critical race theory (CRT) has become the cultural wedge issue of 2021. An important question is what will be CRT’s effect on the future of freedom. Because CRT assumes a finite economic pie and posits all economic interactions as zero-sum, the
Biden’s Vaccine Mandates: It’s about Power
The Biden administration on Thursday announced sweeping new mandates. The new mandates require that all employers with more than one hundred workers require workers to be vaccinated or to test for the virus weekly. The mandates also require covid vaccinations for
A Legacy of Corruption in the FDA and Big Pharma
Our healthcare system is broken, a fact nobody would have disputed in precovid days. Regulatory capture is a reality, and the pharmaceutical industry is fraught with examples. Yet we trusted private-public partnerships to find an optimal solution to a global
9/11 Was a Day of Unforgivable Government Failure
Perhaps more than anything else, the rationale given for the necessity of the state—and the necessity of supporting the regime at any given time—is that it "keeps us safe." This permeates thinking about government institutions at all levels, from “thin blue
Slippery Slope Arguments and Tyranny
In my article last week, I talked about Michael Huemer’s notion of “false fallacies.” These are often listed in logic books as bad arguments, but some of them, Huemer suggests, are actually good arguments, at least if suitably modified. This week,
Murray Sabrin’s New Book on Escaping Medical Fascism
On the heels of Biden's vaccine mandate announcement, Dr. Murray Sabrin joins the show to discuss his new book on escaping the state's medical fascism. Universal Medical Care from Conception to End of Life lays out the sobering reality of
China Isn’t About to Become a Superpower
China faces a wide variety of demographic, geopolitical, and economic limits on the regime's power. And, socialism and Keynesianism don't work any better in China than in the USA. Moreover, contrary to the myth, China is not run by politicians