Peace through Strength? Excessive US Military Spending Encourages More War
American politicians claim that excessive military spending makes Americans "safe." The record shows otherwise.
American politicians claim that excessive military spending makes Americans "safe." The record shows otherwise.
Thirty-nine people were killed in school shootings in 2018 (one of the worst years). In the same period, 900 children drowned, and 1,800 were murdered via child abuse.
Police stood around outside the Uvalde, Texas, school while a gunman shot children inside. Meanwhile, gun control advocates tell us we should just trust the cops to keep us safe.
Jeff and Bob discuss a recent interview with IMF economist Manmohan Singh in the context of central banks co-opting digital technology for bad ends.
Ireland has been "experimenting" with MMT and price controls. The results are predictable.
By making covid a political virus, progressive politicians, cheered on by their media, applied political "solutions" that failed to protect the most vulnerable people.
Krugman’s recent NYT column on Russia features commentary on trade surpluses that is at best very misleading.
The African Continent Free Trade Area has the potential to serve Africans and bring about better living standards. However, it is threatened by government attempts to "manage" trade.
The proabortion centralist line of "accept our definition of human rights, or else" is what we'd expect from the imperialists of old who claimed the "savages" in the colonies couldn't be trusted with self-government.
Jeff Deist and Ryan McMaken talk police, guns, gun control, and the 2nd Amendment.
After the 2008 housing bust, the government supposedly set up a fail-safe mortgage program aimed at preventing future bubbles. It failed.
While the covid-19 pandemic brought sickness and death, another pandemic raged through Washington: abuse of executive power.
While supporters of the Biden administration fault Putin for shortages, Austrian economists know the answer lies in Washington's monetary and economic mismanagement.
The combination of covid lockdowns, money pumping, and attempts to force a new green economy are taking their toll. This is not going away any time soon.
Jeff and Bob take a look at the misnamed "World Economic Forum" and its conference this past week in Davos.
The Europeans are welcome to keep NATO going if they like. But the time has come for the United States to exit.
While the standard secular narrative is that Christianity held back science and human development, history tells a different story, one of literacy and the development of human capital.
Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss progressivism as a form of modern colonialism.