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Back to SearchThe Five Stages of Totalitarianism
Totalitarian societies do not become that way overnight. There are recognizable signs and stages which show how a society slides into that abyss.
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It's No Surprise that Conservatives Have Rediscovered Their Love of Federal Power
There is no reason to be surprised by the total lack of commitment to any ideological standards. Nor is there any reason to expect anything better. T…
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The Political Economy of Pesticides: How to Subsidize a Poison
Will the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) succeed? If the regulatory story of DDT is a prime example of government regulation in action, then the an…
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Surprise! Mamdani Is Governing Like a Socialist
By hiring a communist as his main housing adviser, New York Mayor Zohram Mamdani is fully committed to driving out private ownership of rental proper…
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Why the Federalists Hated the Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights transformed the Constitution from one of supreme and total national power to a partially mixed polity where the liberal anti-natio…
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We Can Have Unity or We Can Have Freedom. We Can't Have Both.
While unity sounds like a nice thing to have, when it comes to politics and nation-states, experience repeatedly shows that unity is the tool of thos…
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Latest Federal Killing in Minnesota Echoes Ruby Ridge
The latest killing of a protester in Minneapolis by federal agents is reminiscent of the shooting of Vickie Weaver by a government sniper in 1992. In…
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On the Failure of Constitutionalism Through the Ages: Norms, Emergencies, and the Administrative State
Constitutionalism gives us the expectation of governance according to rules that everyone from those that are governed to the ones that govern are ex…
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Reparations Are a Welfare Scheme and Would Have No Effect on Racial Wealth Gaps
For all of the demands for reparations for blacks, the schemes so far have been unworkable and would not address the real wealth gaps between black a…
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Trading with the Enemy: An American Tradition
Murray Rothbard recounts how during the French and Indian War (1754–63), Americans continued the great tradition of trading with the enemy.
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