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Back to SearchReparations 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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Israel and Its Relationship to the Islamic State
In the so-called world of strategic alliances, things often are not what they seem to be. It is that way with the Islamic State or ISIS, which suppos…
5 months, 1 week ago
Weak States, Not Limited States: Early Ming Governance and the Illusion of Proto-Liberalism
Although some scholars have labeled the early Ming Dynasty as a proto-liberal state, they are mistaken. The Ming governance at that time was weak, no…
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The British North American Colonies Were Not Homogeneous Political Units
The original 13 British colonies that made up the early United States had very different populations with decidedly different political and social ou…
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Bait-and-Switch: Victims of the LA Wildfires Find That Local Government Wants Them Gone
People who lost their homes last year in the LA wildfires are finding government roadblocks to rebuilding, due to systems put in place by progressive…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Trump Wants $500 Billion More for the Pentagon As Deficits Mount
Trump says he wants to spend half a trillion more dollars on military spending, even as federal spending persists at Biden-Era levels and interest on…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Trump’s Justice Dept. Launches Criminal Probe against the Fed's Powell
This feud is little more than two factions within the Federal government fighting over how exactly to use the Fed’s many powers to inflate, exploit, …
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Powell Should Be A Great American Villain. DC Will Make Him a Hero
The current Washington tiff between Donald Trump and Jerome Powell is being reframed as Powell heroically defending the Fed’s “independence.” In trut…
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The American Revolution and Classical Liberalism
"America, above all countries, was born in an explicitly libertarian revolution, a revolution against empire; against taxation, trade monopoly, and r…
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