Authoritarianism
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Biden’s Gambit: Actively Testing Americans’ Willingness to Assert Their Rights
“The lesson here is, if you have moral rights and legal rights, defend them so that they are also your actual rights. As John Stuart Mill observed, ‘Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.'” ~ Jon Sanders
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Nutzenschmerz
“Only a society afflicted with severe Nutzenschmerz would choose a system where even the neediest are harmed, to ensure that no one else gets an arbitrary or undeserved benefit.” ~ Michael Munger
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The Irony of China’s Most Recent Bitcoin Ban
“With the Evergrande crisis looming in the background, the crypto universe being pilloried by Chinese authorities as a ‘growing threat to financial stability’ and ‘disrupt[ive] to economic order’ is more than simply ironic. It is irony at its most mordant.” ~ Peter C. Earle
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The Curse of Resources, Coups, and Business
“Unruly ambitions degrade the institutions and norms that would contribute to successful negotiations with multinational firms and investors essential for the development of the economy.” ~ Todd Myers
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Biden’s Wrecking Ball for Financial Privacy
“President Biden relishes condemning tax-dodging billionaires but that $600 reporting requirement is a signal that IRS purgatory could soon be crowded with average Americans.” ~ James Bovard
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A Tale of Two Letters
“I can imagine writing, and have written, two letters of advice to my two sons upon their graduations from high school and college, the first if the trajectory of February 2020 had continued and the second given what has actually transpired since.” ~ Robert E. Wright
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Why Totalitarians Promote Hate
“As human cooperation decreases and hatred increases, you too, not just the people the mandates are directed against, will suffer. The oxygen of capitalism is cooperation. The oxygen of totalitarians is hatred for differences.” ~ Barry Brownstein
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Hating Landlords Misplaces the Blame
“In greedy-bastard economics, rather than tracing their understanding of something they dislike back to its ultimate source, people only trace it back until they get to someone they can demonize as a greedy bastard.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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Red Light Robberies Across America
“‘Taxation by citation’ is a license for bureaucratic tyranny. How much longer will local politicians be permitted to plunder drivers and subvert safety with impunity?” ~ James Bovard
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Identity Politics and Systemic Racism Theory as the New Marxo-Nazism
“The new Marxo-Nazism of identity politics and systemic racism theory would turn back the clock and return us to a time and type of society that America and Americans have worked so hard to place in the past of human history.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling
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Biden’s Gambit: Actively Testing Americans’ Willingness to Assert Their Rights
“The lesson here is, if you have moral rights and legal rights, defend them so that they are also your actual rights. As John Stuart Mill observed, ‘Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.'” ~ Jon Sanders
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Nutzenschmerz
“Only a society afflicted with severe Nutzenschmerz would choose a system where even the neediest are harmed, to ensure that no one else gets an arbitrary or undeserved benefit.” ~ Michael Munger
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The Irony of China’s Most Recent Bitcoin Ban
“With the Evergrande crisis looming in the background, the crypto universe being pilloried by Chinese authorities as a ‘growing threat to financial stability’ and ‘disrupt[ive] to economic order’ is more than simply ironic. It is irony at its most mordant.” ~ Peter C. Earle
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The Curse of Resources, Coups, and Business
“Unruly ambitions degrade the institutions and norms that would contribute to successful negotiations with multinational firms and investors essential for the development of the economy.” ~ Todd Myers
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Biden’s Wrecking Ball for Financial Privacy
“President Biden relishes condemning tax-dodging billionaires but that $600 reporting requirement is a signal that IRS purgatory could soon be crowded with average Americans.” ~ James Bovard
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A Tale of Two Letters
“I can imagine writing, and have written, two letters of advice to my two sons upon their graduations from high school and college, the first if the trajectory of February 2020 had continued and the second given what has actually transpired since.” ~ Robert E. Wright
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Why Totalitarians Promote Hate
“As human cooperation decreases and hatred increases, you too, not just the people the mandates are directed against, will suffer. The oxygen of capitalism is cooperation. The oxygen of totalitarians is hatred for differences.” ~ Barry Brownstein
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Hating Landlords Misplaces the Blame
“In greedy-bastard economics, rather than tracing their understanding of something they dislike back to its ultimate source, people only trace it back until they get to someone they can demonize as a greedy bastard.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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Red Light Robberies Across America
“‘Taxation by citation’ is a license for bureaucratic tyranny. How much longer will local politicians be permitted to plunder drivers and subvert safety with impunity?” ~ James Bovard
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Identity Politics and Systemic Racism Theory as the New Marxo-Nazism
“The new Marxo-Nazism of identity politics and systemic racism theory would turn back the clock and return us to a time and type of society that America and Americans have worked so hard to place in the past of human history.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling