Big Government

Conventional wisdom tells us the liberal democracies are the most peace-loving nations. But the record tells us something else.

Constitutionalism gives us the expectation of governance according to rules that everyone from those that are governed to the ones that govern are expected to obey. But what happens if those that govern exempt themselves from those rules?

Perhaps the most insidious power seized by the state is the power of dominion over all lands in its territory. There is no escaping state dominion.

Inflation is a government tool used to confiscate wealth from ordinary citizens and transfer it to government agents and others who are politically connected. That most Americans believe inflation is caused by greedy business owners shows how successfully the government covers its tracks.

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Bruce Goldberg's Why Schools Fail and finds much to like. Not surprisingly, elite progressive “experts” have ruined education just as they have ruined just about everything else.

As Murray Rothbard warned decades ago, government-sponsored science is simply an extension of the bureaucracy used by the regime to force its policies on others. This is not an accident or anomaly; it is how government works.

When Hugo Chavez nationalized Venezuela’s oil industry and created a huge welfare state funded by declining oil revenues, he unleashed huge social problems that have reduced the nation to poverty. The Trump administration’s recent actions against Venezuela will make things much worse.

The standard explanation for the Constitutional Convention was that the Articles of Confederation were a failure. However, the Articles actually worked the way they were supposed to work. Unfortunately, the advocates of a strong central government ultimately got their way.

The US is not the only country with a broken air traffic control system due to state control. India's system also is in a statist mess. The solution is to get government out of the business of ATC.

The standard explanation for the Constitutional Convention was that the Articles of Confederation were a failure. However, the Articles actually worked the way they were supposed to work. Unfortunately, the advocates of a strong central government ultimately got their way.