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Neil Young and Joni Mitchell Are Not Censoring Joe Rogan

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Leftists are going ballistic over the Joe Rogan dustup at Spotify. After Rogan had a guest on his show that expounded COVID-19 viewpoints that go against what the government likes, singer Neil Young announced that he was pulling his songs from Spotify to protest what Rogan had done. He was followed by singer Joni Mitchell, who announced the same thing with respect to her songs. This has caused leftists to decry “Censorship!” on the part of Young and Mitchell. But it isn’t censorship. It’s instead how things are handled in a free society.  The only entity that is capable of engaging in censorship is the government. When the government prohibits people from expounding a particular point of view or punishes them for doing so, it is engaging in censorship.  Licensed under Creative Commons. On the other hand, when a private entity refuses to permit a ...

Political Paternalism, Not Free Markets, Cause Economic Shocks

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One of the political paternalist tricks is to insist that any economic policy failure is more “proof” of the bankruptcy of the market economy. Once again, this worn-out device is employed by Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz. Any and all such presumed market “failures” are placed by Stiglitz under the umbrella term, “neoliberalism.” Neoliberalism has become one of the most elastic terms in the political paternalist lexicon. It amounts to whatever the paternalist dislikes or to any interventionist welfare-state policy that has turned out badly from his own point-of-view, but which cannot be admitted to have been caused by some aspect of his own policy agenda. Never having to say you are sorry for your own social engineering failures is central to this mindset. In a recent article at Project Syndicate, Stiglitz calls for "Shock Therapy for Neoliberals."(April 5, 2022). He insists that for the last several decades. America and indeed the world ...

America, Meet Your New Dictator-in-Chief

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“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have given way to permanent crisis management: to policing the planet and fighting preventative wars of ideological containment, usually on terrain chosen by, and favorable to, our enemies. Limited government and constitutional accountability have been shouldered aside by the kind of imperial presidency our constitutional system was explicitly designed to prevent.” — David C. Unger, The Emergency State: America’s Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs America, meet your new dictator-in-chief. As the New York Times reports, “Newly disclosed documents have shed a crack of light on secret executive branch plans for apocalyptic scenarios—like the aftermath of a nuclear attack—when the president may activate wartime powers for national security emergencies.” The problem, of course, is that we have become a nation in a permanent state of emergency. Power-hungry and lawless, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expand its powers and justify all manner of government tyranny in ...

The Next Crisis Is Anyone’s Guess, But the Government Is Ready to Lockdown the Nation

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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”—H.L. Mencken First came 9/11, which the government used to transform itself into a police state. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, which the police state used to test out its lockdown powers. In ...

Trampling on a Symbol of Liberty

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Last August, 12-year-old Jaiden Rodriguez was kicked out of a public-school classroom in Colorado Springs after school officials decreed that the Gadsden flag patch on his backpack was “disruptive to the classroom environment.” Those Colorado officials didn’t know the meaning of “disruptive.” Thanks to savvy, thoughtful retorts by Jaiden’s mother in a video showdown at the school, the incident spurred ...