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The Social Engineer as Ethical Authoritarian

by Richard M. Ebeling February 1, 2022

Since the start of the coronavirus crisis, advocates of greater government planning and redistribution have used “following the science” as the rhetorical cover to rationalize the growth in political paternalism. Now, however, some of them are coming out of the closet and insisting that economists, for example, must explicitly adopt an authoritarian ethic that requires the end to any ...

How Government Meddling Ruined Higher Education, Part 1

by George Leef February 1, 2022

Part 1 | Part 2 There is no need whatsoever for government to provide, subsidize, or control education. As with all other services, people can voluntarily offer to provide teaching or training, and those who are interested in such services can choose among the individuals and institutions offering them in the market. That is true for primary and secondary ...

Totalitarian Paranoia Run Amok

by John W. Whitehead January 27, 2022

“Totalitarian paranoia runs deep in American society, and it now inhabits the highest levels of government.”—Professor Henry Giroux Once upon a time, there was a government so paranoid about its hold on power that it treated everyone and everything as a threat and a reason to expand its powers. Unfortunately, the citizens of this nation believed everything ...

The Healthcare Road to Serfdom

by Scott McPherson January 26, 2022

COVID-19 hysteria has done more to embolden the power-mad than a massive terrorist attack. Once content to whisper among themselves about the danger of “too much freedom” (any amount, in the final analysis, being too much for them), they slither out of the shadows now to champion every new idea or policy that treats people like bees in a ...

Abolish OSHA

by Laurence M. Vance January 25, 2022

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) should be abolished. But it should not be abolished because of anything to do with COVID-19. In response to President Biden’s national strategy to combat COVID-19 by vaccinating the unvaccinated, on November 5, 2021, OSHA issued an “Emergency Temporary Standard” (ETS) requiring that businesses with 100 or more employees either ...

Abolish the FBI. Now.

by Scott McPherson January 21, 2022

In late December, pollster Scott Rasmussen released an interesting report. A poll conducted earlier in the month of 1,000 likely voters uncovered a welcome development: Americans don't trust or like the FBI. Even more revealing is the wording used in the poll, which actually came in the form of a statement that read: “Roger Stone, an adviser to former President Donald ...

Cancel Culture’s War on Free Speech

by John W. Whitehead January 19, 2022

“Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners.” — George Carlin Cancel culture—political correctness amped up on steroids, the self-righteousness of a narcissistic age, and a mass-marketed pseudo-morality that is little more than fascism disguised as tolerance—has shifted us into an Age of Intolerance, policed by techno-censors, social media bullies, and government watchdogs. Everything is now fair game for censorship if ...

Inflation Nation

by Scott McPherson January 12, 2022

Almost a year ago, Larry Summers, a former treasury secretary, warned that pumping trillions of dollars into the U.S. economy could have terrible consequences. He told Democrats that they were taking “substantial risks” in passing the so-called American Rescue Plan (ARP), possibly creating “inflationary pressures of a kind we have not seen in a generation.” Summers was patronized and mocked ...

The Pilgrims Tried Socialism and It Failed

by Richard M. Ebeling January 11, 2022

With the Thanksgiving holiday in the rear view mirror, we can get past the carving of a turkey; the stuffing and sweet potatoes; and many slices of pumpkin pie that almost all of us happily consumed. But how many of us know or appreciate that Thanksgiving really celebrates the failure of socialism and the birth of private enterprise and ...

Despotism Is the New Normal

by John W. Whitehead January 10, 2022

Looking at the present, I see a more probable future: a new despotism creeping slowly across America. Faceless oligarchs sit at command posts of a corporate-government complex that has been slowly evolving over many decades. In efforts to enlarge their own powers and privileges, they are willing to have others suffer the intended or unintended consequences ...

Winning Freedom Requires Some Radical Solutions

by Richard M. Ebeling January 7, 2022

Suppose that there was a button in front of you that if you pushed, it would, in one instant, abolish all the governmental controls and regulations on the US economy. Would you push that button, and in so doing transform the United States into a society of free people? People who would associate with each other based on voluntary ...

Dear Conservatives: It’s Time to Separate School and State

by Scott McPherson January 6, 2022

For decades, so-called “progressives” and other leftists have claimed that elected local school boards give parents control over education. Everyone knows it's a lie, but few have had the courage to speak up. Still, the delusion persists. On the day after Christmas, Nikole Hannah-Jones, of the New York Times' fact-deficient 1619 Project, let the mask drop completely. “I don't really ...