It is always a mistake to advocate government action, for there is no way you can fully anticipate how government will be used. Nor can you ever count on a slice of the population to be moral in its advocacy of the uses of the police power.

Original article (2004): The Reality of Red-State Fascism

As real wages decline and middle-class savings are depleted, the government expands its influence, garnering support from a substantial portion of the populace.

Original article: This Is a Slow-Motion Nationalization of the Economy

Would America’s federal government deliberately undermine recovery efforts to try to achieve its own desired political ends? Of course.

Original article: The Regime Wants Appalachia To Suffer

“In 1988, Murray Rothbard wrote a great monograph called Ludwig von Mises: Scholar, Creator, Hero. I'd like to concentrate today on the third of the qualities, Mises as a hero.”

Original article: Ludwig von Mises, Hero

In the spirit of a new Cold War, Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea have written a new book, We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy and the New Cold War, which tries to fuse the foreign policies of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. The result is a foreign policy Frankenstein.

Original article: We Lose, They Lose: A Reagan-Trump Fusion

Einstein's name is synonymous with brilliance, yet his great intelligence did not translate to logical economic thinking. Instead, Einstein embraced socialism, thinking that one could guide an economy like one guides a mathematical equation.

Original article: Einstein Was the Greatest Physicist but Was Economically Illiterate

Progressives claim that the state grants us our rights, and that liberty can flourish only in the presence of a powerful state. The truth runs in the opposite direction.

Original article: The Presumption of Liberty

While the US dollar is the world's “reserve” currency—at least for now—the reckless spending and money creation policies of the US government place the dollar in peril.

Original article: Can America Survive Global De-Dollarization?