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The media is trying to frame last week’s indictment of James Comey as a “norm-shattering” use of executive power for personal gain. In truth,...
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Roger Williams, the Baptist minister whose libertarian views ran afoul of the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorities, should be honored as one of this country’s...
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Prompted by an online debate about whether economics belongs with the hard sciences, Bob reviews common defenses of mainstream practice and explains why they...
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Keynesian orthodoxy claims that the cause of recessions is a decline in so-called aggregate demand. Besides confusing cause-and-effect, Keynesians don’t understand that downturns are...
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Inflation is not just an economic phenomenon. It also undercuts the foundations of a civilization, leading to the breakdown of society itself.
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Created to assure that newly-freed slaves would receive equal legal protection, the Fourteenth Amendment has come to dominate federal jurisprudence. This is not a...
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Professor Georgy Ganev joins Bob to explain that, contrary to the claims of David Graeber and the MMTers, the barter origin of money has...
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Created to assure that newly-freed slaves would receive equal legal protection, the Fourteenth Amendment has come to dominate federal jurisprudence. This is not a...
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Individual voters have little reason to become informed. Politicians have strong incentives to pander rather than persuade. Partisans are rewarded for tribal loyalty rather...
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By trying to protect dairy farmers and raise their incomes, the government created a massive cheese surplus, then gave it away, thus harming the...
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During the Cold War, pro-assassination forces gained ground, but the illegal killing was hidden because it was inconsistent with the shining-city-on-the-hill propaganda.
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In the West, the “tax states” we now live under are relatively modern institutions, and they developed from earlier non-state civil governments that were...
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By trying to protect dairy farmers and raise their incomes, the government created a massive cheese surplus, then gave it away, thus harming the...