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What Year Did Healthcare Become a “Right”?

February 11, 2020 – J. Kyle DeVries …… Was healthcare a natural right two hundred years ago? If so, how is it that this “right” to eighteenth-century medicine morphed into a right to MRIs and chemotherapy? Do rights change with technology? That’s not how rights work. Continue reading →

Brexit: Predictions of Economic Doom Show Why People Ignore “Experts”

February 10, 2020 – Ryan McMaken …… Experts who predicted economic doom as Brexit approached obsessed over the problem of “transaction costs” in trade. But the EU was imposing countless new transaction costs of its own. Continue reading →

The State Owns You: The Problem with “National Service”

February 9, 2020 – Tyler Curtis …… All arguments in favor of mandatory service rest on the idea that an individual’s life belongs not to him- or herself, but to the state. Continue reading →

Why Democracy Doesn’t Give Us What We Want

February 7, 2020 – Gary M. Galles …… Uncritically holding democracy out as an ideal overlooks the question of whether market democracy or political democracy better serves citizens. Continue reading →

Secession in Virginia Would Defuse the State’s Conflict over Guns

February 6, 2020 – Ryan McMaken …… If opponents of the current ideological winds blowing in Virginia find themselves in a permanent minority, it may very well be that the only method of defending the minority position is by leaving the state. But “exit” can theoretically be obtained in more than one way. Continue reading →

Trade Sanctions Are Both Immoral and Ineffective

February 5, 2020 – Matheus Fialho Vieira …… Sanctions have a long history of failure. The US government’s recent sanctions on Iran will likely be no different, but they will certainly be harmful to the Iranian people. Continue reading →

The Majority of Virginia Homicides Come from Only Two Metro Areas

February 4, 2020 – Ryan McMaken …… Legislators have begun to push through new restrictions on gun ownership in Virginia, even though homicide is rare in more than one hundred Virginia cities. Continue reading →

5 Personal Stories of Poverty and Oppression Behind the Iron Curtain

February 2, 2020 – Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) …… FEE staffers share their family stories about growing up under oppressive Soviet control. Continue reading →

Death to Prohibition

January 30, 2020 – Mark Thornton …… The repeated failure of prohibition may be just the catalyst that Austrian economics needs to gain traction with the American public. Continue reading →

10 Terrifying Facts about the East German Secret Police

January 29, 2020 – Laura Williams …… The Stasi’s sole function was to keep the Communist Party in power. They didn’t care how. Continue reading →