The Ruling Elites Create an Orwellian Reinterpretation of Human Rights
Not satisfied with the capture of most of our institutions, the ruling elites have gone full Orwell in redefining the term "human rights." It is their own version of Newspeak.
Update on Anti-Money Laundering Data from FinCEN
Nicholas Anthony The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has been the subject of scrutiny for years over its lack of transparency. The agency recently started to provide some information to the public but that information largely confirms long-held suspicions, namely that
The Cult of the Presidency: 2024 Edition
Gene Healy The pivotal moment in the September 10 debate came roughly 28 minutes in when Vice President Kamala Harris successfully baited the world’s most baitable man. If you attend a Trump rally, she told the audience, you’ll “notice that people start leaving
Happy Yeltsin Supermarket Day!
Scott Lincicome Thirty-five years ago today, Boris Yeltsin, then a newly elected member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, visited NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, where he toured the US government facility and the various technologies therein.
Privatize Federal Lands
The US federal government is the nation's largest landlord and still owns 28 percent of the land in the US. The time has come for large-scale privatization.
Trump’s 2020 Stolen Election Claims Are Wrong on the Merits
Walter Olson Donald Trump is back to saying the 2020 election was stolen from him, and his followers regularly echo these claims. It’s therefore helpful to keep on hand one or two of the exhaustively detailed state-by-state accounts by election lawyers
Understanding the Real Costs of Slavery: It’s Not Cheap labor
The standard belief is that slavery was about obtaining “cheap labor,“ yet nothing could be further from the truth. Slavery comes with high opportunity costs, which is why American slave owners depended upon several government regulations to subsidize their “peculiar
Do Financial Markets Immediately Provide All Relevant Information?
The Perfect Market Hypothesis claims that all movements in the market can be considered as random, as market players and prices adjust immediately to new information. However, market players do seek new information and seek to use it.
Why Marx Was Wrong about Workers and Wages
Marx built his infamous Labor Theory of Value on the premise that labor itself was a commodity. However, as Mises and other Austrians have noted, Marx failed both at understanding the complexity of labor and subjective value theories.
Marxism as Sophism: A Critical Examination of Labor as a Commodity
Marx built his infamous Labor Theory of Value on the premise that labor itself was a commodity. However, as Mises and other Austrians have noted, Marx failed both at understanding the complexity of labor and subjective value theories.
The Rebellious Old Right
What Murray Rothbard used to call the "Old Right" stood for liberty, freedom of speech, and a free economy. Most importantly, they stood for peace, all in contrast to the "liberals" of their day and ours.
Is the Skyscraper Curse Dead?
There is good evidence that the Skyscraper Curse is dead. But what does that mean? Are historical changes are in the works?