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Minimum Wage: A Most Remarkable Belief

July 21, 2019 – Pierre Lemieux …… Even if the minimum wage increased the total value of production, it would still be a strange belief to view it as a desirable public policy. Continue reading →

Yes, Parents Are Capable of Choosing How Their Children Should Be Educated

July 20, 2019 – Kerry McDonald …… The idea that parents get in the way of children’s education and can halt their flourishing is nothing new. It’s also false. Continue reading →

What If Charity Replaced Taxation?

July 19, 2019 – Jean Vilbert …… Perhaps if the government demanded less (coercively), people would give more voluntarily. Continue reading →

Ignore the Fear Mongering, Here’s What Climate Change Models Actually Say

July 18, 2019 – Robert P. Murphy …… The most alarming of the projections of climate change damages rely on naïve assumptions about human adaptability. Continue reading →

Mexican BMW Factory Shows Us the Benefits of Free Trade

July 16, 2019 – Gary Galles …… Car companies are building in Mexico rather than the United States, largely because it has freer trade than the United States does with the rest of the world. Continue reading →

US Immigration Enforcement: Guilty Until Proven Innocent

July 15, 2019 – Ryan McMaken …… “Here’s the problem. If you give government a job to do, even one that seems justified in the abstract, it will use its power to make a terrible mess in practice.” Continue reading →

The Entrepreneur Who Became a Billionaire After Being Rejected by Facebook

July 14, 2019 – Kerry McDonald …… Jan Koum’s teenage self-education took place in the 1990s, before knowledge and information were so widely available and easily accessible. Continue reading →

World War I: A Revisionist Reading List

July 12, 2019 – David Gordon …… These books and authors criticize the decision of the United States in 1917 to enter WWI, the bad results of the treaties that ended the war, and the propaganda designed to induce the public to accept the war against the Central Powers. Continue reading →

The California Government’s Latest Bait-and-Switch Is Simply Politics as Usual

July 7, 2019 – Gary Galles …… Bait-and-switching designated spending is a ubiquitous aspect of government and provides more than ample justification for a lack of public trust that it will accomplish what it promises. Continue reading →

Homelessness and the Failure of Urban Renewal

July 5, 2019 – Ryan McMaken …… We continue to live with the wreckage of failed urban renewal, and Progressive city planning. And the evidence can be seen in the tent cities and makeshift latrines we now see in public spaces. Continue reading →