Media and Culture
Failing to Make the Case for Race-Based Reparations
In reviewing Reconsidering Reparations by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, David Gordon and Wanjiru Njoya point out the book's many fallacies and the lack of a coherent theory of justice by the author.
A Principled View of Nations and Nationalism
As Murray Rothbard has noted, there is an important distinction between nation and state. The former is a voluntary association of people while the latter is coercive and predatory. Progressives, of course, claim the opposite.
American Policies Only Make Haiti Worse
The US continually intervenes in Latin American countries for the apparent purpose of ensuring that they be as dangerous as possible for the people who live there.
Separating Information from Disinformation: Threats from the AI Revolution
While fears that AI will morph into something like the Terminator and try to destroy the world, the real threat from AI is that the authorities will use it to produce propaganda and public lies.
Clarifying Scarcity: The Garden of Eden
Did scarcity begin with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden? Or were human beings and their surroundings already bound by time and space before they ate the forbidden fruit?
The Absurdity and Danger of the State of the Union
While the president's level of energy and coherence grabbed much of the attention in last night's State of the Union, the opening of the speech revealed the troubling mindset of the Washington establishment.
Who Hijacked Our Free Will?
We may be governed by incompetent elites, but even they have not taken away our free will and ability to think for ourselves. We can look to Mises and Rothbard for inspiration.
Not Altogether Honest Abe
What were Abraham Lincoln’s religious beliefs? Not what most Americans would think. While a scoffer for much of his life, his wartime speeches spoke of “Providence” and developed a fatalistic worldview.
Biblical Critical Theory Is Not Biblical. It’s Watered-Down Marxism
Christianity Today and other Christian publications are touting a book that claims to be based upon “biblical critical theory.” It’s yet another version of Marxism that is neither critical nor biblical. It’s just more Marxism.