Election 2020: A Cynical First Look at the Results
Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss the failure of the pollsters, the imaginary Blue Wave, and the end of naive democracy.
Antipolitics
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Will a Nonpolitical “Silent Majority” Stop the Left?
Projections have the 2020 election seeing record-high turnout. Conventional wisdom views this as a win for Joe Biden, but could conventional wisdom be wrong?
This Is Why Murray Rothbard Was a Populist
Did Murray Rothbard think that populism could work to limit the power of the state?
Was Hoppe Wrong about Democracy?
Hans-Hermann Hoppe has shown in his writings that democracy leads to economic impoverishment and political disaster under certain conditions. But what are those conditions, and are they dominant in electoral institutions in the United States today?
The Imposers and the Imposed Upon
There are two distinct classes in America, and we have to break up. And we have to break up sooner rather than later. If we are to avoid a disastrous conflict, each side has to let the other go.
3 Ways to Make Democracy Less Bad
Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss some strategies for lessening the damage democracy can do.
Kenosha Kyle, the McCloskeys, and Standing Against Barbarism
The attempt to conflate the defense of property with tribal street violence reflects the anticapitalist bias of the modern zeitgeist.
End the Shutdown
The lasting and far-reaching harms caused by this authoritarian precedent far outweigh those caused by the COVID-19 virus. The American people must decide for themselves how and when to reopen society and return to their daily lives.
