Is “extractive” always a dirty word? While mining and energy fuel civilization, modern environmentalism has reshaped public perception—and the economy. What happens when ideology clashes with reality?
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Most modern Americans cannot conceive of states seceding from the US, but in 1860, the majority of the people believed secession was both legal and moral and saw the Constitution…
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Should we audit the US gold hoard? First, let’s take a look at what the official numbers say about how big the US gold reserve is, where it is located,…
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Bob argues that the only way to cripple Mexican drug cartels is through U.S. drug legalization, explaining how prohibition fuels violence and corruption while debunking common libertarian arguments about the…
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The great French economist Frederic Bastiat wrote that we should not look just at the visible results of government economic intervention, but also the good things that the intervention keeps…
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In this week‘s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Jim Downs, who exposes the high death…
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Property taxes, by its critics, have correctly been described as unjust, regressive, and inefficient, in addition to having a disproportionate effect on lower-income homeowners who potentially have more of a…
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While Marxist progressives claim that “class conflict” is the source of social ills, the true conflict involves the tax consuming caste using state power to plunder the productive tax- paying…
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It seems that the EU leaders have decided on a new military spending spree. To pay for this, the EU will issue new war debt on top of its current…
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“Liberal” remains the only truly accurate and consistent term for the ideology of freedom and free markets. Without it, we can’t write a coherent historical narrative.