There were many state and local elections in the US this week, but few of them will result in anything that will combat widely held and popular errors about central banking, drug prohibition, and the global environment.
Farmers have been using monkeys to harvest coconuts in Thailand for hundreds of years. But now, animal rights activists have decided that these farmers should have their livelihoods destroyed in order to save the monkeys from "slavery".
The World Health Organization has declared that eating meat will kill you. But the WHO's war on meat is not really about your health. It's about "saving the planet" from the latest industry that has been deemed "unsustainable" by global elites.
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 22 July 2015.
Even if the global warming lobby is eventually able to prove their case for the existence of global warming, that would still do nothing to prove the necessity of their plan for global economic controls, and thus, the impoverishment of billions.
This short article emphasizes the importance of an institutional framework for environmental mass torts, without which a strict application of libertarian ethics leads to corner solutions in which there is a coordination failure.
Kingsman: The Secret Service is a big-budget semi-satirical take on the spy genre, featuring the film clichés audiences now associate with the James Bond and Jason Bourne franchises.
In California, the price of water is set by politicians, and not by markets, so that cheap water benefits some interest groups over others. It should now surprise no one that the state is in the midst of a water crisis.
The Supreme Court case of Michigan v. EPA illustrates how the law provides so many tools to federal agencies that their power is more or less unlimited. It's only a matter of finding which laws will stick, and the result is lawlessness.
Our friend Robert Bradley recently took a look back 25 years ago when the New York Times still had some scientific backbone.
