There is a long history of decrying “unfettered capitalism” to justify the imposition of added fetters of various sorts on our freedom to choose how and with whom to productively associate. For instance, Jonah Goldberg noted late last year how it had been utilized by...
There is a long history of decrying “unfettered capitalism” to justify the imposition of added fetters of various sorts on our freedom to choose how and with whom to productively associate. For instance, Jonah Goldberg noted late last year how it...
Imagine being able to find housing in San Francisco for the same price as in Pennsylvania or being able to travel between cities in a fraction of the time it takes to drive—without the hassle of flying. What if life-saving medical centers were built in communities...
Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share via Email …. is from Alyssa’s Ahlghen’s article “Panic, power and the pandemic“: We have lost our minds. We have said goodbye to any semblance of rationality or assessment of data and said hello to illogical alarmism. A virus...
The history of mass hysteria, or mass sociogenic illness is fascinating. Cases of mass hysteria have been documented since the Middle Ages. Let me just mention a few of the more recent cases. When a radio play by Orson Welles, War of the Worlds, was broadcasted in...
Politicians promise to help everyone go to college. But they just make college more EXPENSIVE.----Don't miss the weekly video from Stossel TV. Sign up here: https://ift.tt/37hRbtg ----Did you know that the University of Missouri is proud to have a “leisure resort” on campus? Naomi Riley,...
In a New York Times op-ed full of musings on how to “build a better, different, human future,” Pope Francis praised world governments for putting “the well-being of their people first” while ridiculing critics of the covid-19 lockdowns. Juxtaposed with Francis’s condemnation of skeptics in the...
The history of mass hysteria, or mass sociogenic illness is fascinating. Cases of mass hysteria have been documented since the Middle Ages. Let me just mention a few of the more recent cases. When a radio play by Orson Welles, War of the Worlds, was broadcasted in...
(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from pages 56-57 of the 2009 edition of the incomparable H.L. Mencken’s 1926 book, Notes on Democracy: The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts…. Politics becomes the trade...
(Don Boudreaux) TweetHere’s a letter to the first commenter on my recent letter to Tyler: Mr. Wise: Commenting critically on my recent open letter to Tyler Cowen you describe my opposition as springing from an “anarchist/libertarian fantasy.” This description is inaccurate. One doesn’t have to be an...