Secession Is Inevitable. War to Prevent It Is
The answer lies not in doubling down on political unity, maintained through endless violence or threats of violence. Rather, the answer lies
A Permanent Wartime Economy
“Governments create money all the time. We do that for war.” “This whole notion that you run government like you
Odds Are Rising That the Fed Will Trigger
From March 17, 2022, to the end of January 2023, the US Federal Reserve (Fed) increased its federal funds rate
Real Estate Markets Are Addicted to Easy Money
On Friday, residential real estate brokerage firm Redfin released new data on home prices, showing that prices fell 0.6 percent
Are Large Hospitals the Problem with US Healthcare?
Is the main problem with the US healthcare system that hospitals have gotten too large since the 1990s? That seems
The “Meritocracy” Was Created by and for the
The American Left has decided that the so-called meritocracy is a bad thing. In a typical example from the Los
We Are All Counterfeiters Now
Intellectuals and politicians often try to verbally summarize or justify conventional thinking in pithy ways. Milton Friedman (in 1965) and
Slavery in the Americas: Separating Fact from Fiction
The history of transatlantic slavery is riddled with fables and errors. Erroneous claims have been propagated in the media because
Gustave de Molinari, First Anarcho-Capitalist
Of all the leading libertarian French economists of the mid- and late nineteenth centuries, the most unusual was the Belgian-born
Biden’s Executive Order on Equity: It Will Create
On February 16, 2023, President Joe Biden issued his second executive order to strengthen equity within federal agencies. Among other