Big Government

When it comes to covid-19, bureaucrats keep moving the goalposts, changing the rules, and engaging in bait-and-switch tactics so they can maintain the "new normal" dictatorship.

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss why people aren't nearly cynical enough about the US Supreme Court.

Covid has exposed how easy it is for government to weaponize healthcare. How long will the doctor-patient relationship remain sacred?

To swing a political debate in favor of the state, all it takes is a crisis, either real or imagined. The masses will then abandon whatever resistance they had to the state's latest interventions.

Europe needs more than ever the principles that made it successful: decentralization, free trade, and sound markets.

Far from stopping the spread of covid-19, lockdowns, only push deaths into the future. Unless a vaccine is imminent or a 100 percent total lockdown is imposed, lockdown won't cause big reductions in total deaths.

What lessons can future generations learn from the stupidity of governments shutting down economies on bogus information? Are mainstream journalists sacrosanct in our culture?

If you like high taxes, crony capitalism, central banking, and a central authority that can regulate everything you do, thank Alexander Hamilton.

If you like high taxes, crony capitalism, central banking, and a central authority that can regulate everything you do, thank Alexander Hamilton.

Whether we're commanded to trust the experts, abandon the rule of law, or venerate government for "keeping us safe," the 9/11 panic and our current crisis have many things in common.