What ever happened to free choice?
(TheIndyChannel.com) WASHINGTON –The Health and Human Services Department said Wednesday afternoon that Indiana’s Medicaid plan, which bans funding to Planned Parenthood, is illegal and must be changed. In a letter sent to Indiana’s Medicaid director,…
Does regulation have to come from the state?
In recent years, the great debate has focused on the role of regulation, how much of it there should be, and whether it does what it should in the economic…
New rules, new system?
In Bill Maher’s New Rules segment, the comedian/political maven shuffles through several new rules he has come up with that he suggests would solve some of our problems. Examples range…
Is Distributism the answer?
In John C. Médaille’s book, Toward a Truly Free Market, the argument is made that the modern system is a self-perpetuating cycle that can only lead to more regulation and…
How to choose a winner
Thanks to another week of volatility in the markets, we are again face-to-face with the fact that there is absolutely no sensible reason for the movement of stock and derivatives…
Radically rethinking the way we fight poverty
The authors of Poor Economics have a point: Ideology drives a lot of policies, and even the most well-intentioned ideas can get bogged down by ignorance of ground-level realities and…
A kindred spirit in effort to slay the Juggernaut
Released in 2009, Chris Martenson’s video seminar ‘Crash Course’ provides an excellent analysis of our predicament. Expanding the talk into what he calls “the Three ‘E’s”, this seminar is comprehensive…
Is self-rule so far-fetched?
Here is a concise explanation of the difference between state government and self governance. As described by the creator: It is a brief video “Looking at the concept of governmental…
A Marxist’s explanation of the 2007-08 crisis
In this short RSA Animate, radical sociologist David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism, towards a new social order that would allow us to live within…
Lessons from the Bushmen
One of the central themes of Juggernaut is that of the closed economy, where alternatives have been eliminated and a people are forced to make do with the social constructs…
What Happens When Alternatives Are Eliminated?
A clip from Alain Resnais’ Mon Oncle d’Amerique shows what happens when alternatives are eliminated, both in scientific studies and fictitious real-world scenarios. Is this not our modern system in…
What happened in 1900?
Anyone who has studied political economy recognizes that something happened around the year 1900 that changed the way the Western world worked. Historian J.M. Roberts declared that 1900 was the…