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Why They Keep Trying to Blame Capitalists for Slavery

September 15, 2019 – Ryan McMaken …… The resurgent claim that the modern economy was built on slavery is yet another attempt to attack capitalism while also claiming “we are all to blame” for slavery. The slave owners of old tried a very similar tactic. Continue reading →

The Myth of Good Government

September 13, 2019 – Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. …… There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market. Another point that is just as telling: no state empowered to do what is supposedly necessary will restrain itself to those things. Continue reading →

An Alternative to Government Prisons

September 12, 2019 – Lee Friday …… A truly effective criminal justice system would be built on restitution, not imprisonment and punishment. Moreover, government-funded prisons have no incentive to rehabilitate prisoners since they receive funding regardless of outcomes. Continue reading →

Bernie Sanders’s Upside-Down Concept of “Morality”

September 10, 2019 – Bradley Thomas …… Sanders’s and other progressives’ blustering about “morality” is really a smokescreen designed to distract from their vision of a society organized around the threat of government aggression against innocents who simply want to mind their own business. Continue reading →

I Immigrated to the US to Pursue the American Dream, Not to Pay for Your College Degree

September 8, 2019 – Jen Sidorova …… Candidates are competing to see who can punish taxpayers the most with a student loan forgiveness plan. Continue reading →

The Freedom to Reject the “Best”

September 5, 2019 – Jim Fedako …… A central benefit of the marketplace is the ability to choose the products and services that the “experts” tell us are not “the best.” Continue reading →

When State Governors Tried To Take Back Control of the National Guard

September 4, 2019 – Ryan McMaken …… In 1986, eight governors threatened to veto deployments of state troops to Central America. Washington generals and politicians responded by further destroying state independence and the Second Amendment’s militia clause. Continue reading →

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