Politics

While Paul Krugman certainly was well-known as an academic economist, he won his Nobel Prize in 2008 for his anti-George W. Bush commentary in the New York Times.

Swiss politicians are thinking of ending Switzerland's long-held policy of neutrality. Why ruin what has been a good thing?

More than 200 years ago, Daniel Webster argued eloquently against a military draft in the US. A half-century later, the US had instituted a draft and then did it again in 1917. The state owns your life and squanders it in wars built on lies.

Mark Thornton traces America’s rising political violence to big government, Fed inflation, and the collapse of the old limited-government consensus.

A society sustained by coercion contaminates its morality by institutionalizing acts that lack the voluntariness honor requires. By aggressing against its citizenry, the state violates natural rights.

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon takes issue with Steven B. Smith’s portrayal of Abraham Lincoln as a “statesman” who was “America’s greatest president.”

Many socialists define socialism by their ideal goals rather than the process—the expansion of the taking mechanism of the coercive state.

Many socialists define socialism by their ideal goals rather than the process—the expansion of the taking mechanism of the coercive state.

Vice-President JD Vance has been touting “common-good conservatism.” It is clear that the man has no understanding of economics and the real world.

Contrary to propaganda from unions and the maritime industry, the Jones Act creates hardships and is helping to drag down the US economy. The only proper outcome is to repeal it immediately.