The state of the Bill of Rights
A man who stripped nearly naked to make a point about his constitutional rights scored a victory today after forcing airport personnel to study up on the First and Fourth…
The decline and fall of Detroit
(National Review) By the time Detroit declared bankruptcy, Americans were so inured to the throbbing dirge of Motown’s Greatest Hits — 40 percent of its streetlamps don’t work; 210 of…
I know of no country where there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy In America.
The increasingly lawless law
(National Review Online) After today’s rulings by the Supreme Court, every American has a larger stake in the outcome of the marriage debate. No one can afford to stay out…
Most highlighted passages from Juggernaut
One of the great aspects of electronic literature is the statistical information provided by linked users. Before e-book readers like the Kindle and Nook, there was no practical way to…
- Autarchy
- Bureaucracy
- Closed System
- Competition
- Current Events
- Debt Ceiling
- Economic Policy
- Economic Theory
- Federal Budget
- Free Land
- Free Market
- Frontier Thesis
- Inspiration
- Interdependency
- Keynesianism
- Legal Theory
- Marxism
- Motivation
- National Debt
- Perpetuity
- Political Theory
- Polycentrism
- Public Choice Theory
- Self-Government
- Self-Rule
- Solutions
- Systems Theory
- Tea Party
- Tyranny
- Wealth
- Welfare Statism
- Zero-sum
To a government that has forgotten its place
(The Objective Standard) On June 4, Becky Gerritson, a founder of the Wetumpka Tea Party in Alabama, testified before congress about the IRS’s abusive practices toward Tea Party groups. Her poignant words…
Fighting corruption with corruption
How do a people protect themselves against a government when that government is the only way to protect them? (Ad-In) We heard recently that the Department of Justice will be investigating…
- Austrian School
- Autarchy
- Bureaucracy
- Closed System
- Competition
- Consumerism
- Currency
- Current Events
- Debt Ceiling
- Economic Policy
- Economic Theory
- Federal Budget
- Free Market
- Inflation
- Interdependency
- Keynesianism
- Legal Theory
- Marxism
- Motivation
- National Debt
- Perpetuity
- Political Theory
- Public Choice Theory
- Systems Theory
- Taxes
- Tyranny
- Wealth
- Welfare Statism
- Zero-sum
Murray Rothbard on the founding of the Federal Reserve 100 years ago
A speech by Murray N. Rothbard. Presented at the Mises Institute’s 1984 “Seminar on Money and Government,” in Houston, Texas.
Juggernaut audio book now available
We are excited to announce the release of the audio book format of Juggernaut, which is now available on Audible.com as well as on iTunes and Amazon.com. The narrator is…
- Autarchy
- Bureaucracy
- Closed System
- Competition
- Culture Divide
- Current Events
- Division of Labor
- Education
- Free Market
- Inspiration
- Interdependency
- Motivation
- Political Theory
- Polycentrism
- Poverty
- Psychology
- Public Choice Theory
- Self-Government
- Self-Reliance
- Self-Rule
- Self-Sufficiency
- Simplicity
- Solutions
- Specialism
- Systems Theory
- Technology
Homeschooled kids are the future of liberty
(Forbes) The modern homeschool movement comes largely by Christians aghast over an academic establishment overrun by progressives. Schools long ago became laboratories for instilling statism and distilling politically correct groupthink….
Bazos’ Blue Origin makes new frontier believable
One of the solutions explained in Juggernaut is to create new frontiers, and the most sensible place for a new frontier is space–the final frontier as it might be known….
Stock market near all time high…so is money supply
(Freakonomics) U.S. stock markets* are flirting with all-time highs (it may happen today) but I am hearing and reading very little about it. Why is that? I can think of…
Pushing things forward in medical research
(Reason) Jack Andraka is not your typical cancer researcher. His first research project resulted in a non-invasive, simple, sensitive, and effective test for detecting pancreatic cancer. His test is 168…
How to challenge the authorities when the authorities are in the wrong
A few videos have recently surfaced showing regular people resisting police and federal agent stops and searches. These videos will definitely get the blood pumping because of the clear examples…
The Overview Effect–the psychology of looking back from space
(The Overview Effect) Who would have thought traveling to outer space could be such a profound experience? OK, probably everybody, but these former astronauts really articulate it in a way…
A Republican criticism of Libertarianism
Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com Author Ann Coulter discusses what the GOP stands for on Stossel. She has some valid points, including “Get rid of the Welfare State, and…
- 2007-08 Crisis
- Bureaucracy
- Capitalism
- Closed System
- Competition
- Culture Divide
- Currency
- Economic Policy
- Economic Theory
- Education
- Free Market
- Inspiration
- Interdependency
- Keynesianism
- Legal Theory
- Motivation
- National Debt
- Perpetuity
- Political Theory
- Poverty
- Public Choice Theory
- Self-Government
- Self-Reliance
- Self-Rule
- Self-Sufficiency
- Solutions
- Taxes
- Trade
- Wealth
- Welfare Statism
An argument against political correctness and fiscal irresponsibility
(Illinois Review) At Thursday morning’s National Prayer Breakfast, Dr. Benjamin Carson, a celebrated pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, gave a 25-minute long keynote address that directly refuted the key…
Good reads–One World Schoolhouse
Salman Khan’s One World Schoolhouse is a brief summary of mass education, where it’s been, and where it ought to go. It would be difficult to find a more comprehensive,…
The nauseating irony of the fiscal cliff pay raise
(Weekly Standard) President Barack Obama issued an executive order to end the pay freeze on federal employees, in effect giving some federal workers a raise. One federal worker now to…