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The amount of waste in federal spending would be laughable if it wasn’t depressing
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Will J.K. Rowling Do Time?
Deliberately defiant: Yesterday, new hate speech laws went into effect in Scotland that, if enforced, will effectively stifle all types of dissent from woke orthodoxy—and could land Harry Potter creator and prominent feminist J.K. Rowling in jail. Passed in 2021, the law cracks down on “stirring up hatred” and enshrines all kinds of new minority-group protections […]
Tyranny of the majority is not how we get to liberty
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The Senate Calls Out-of-Control Spending a National Security Threat, Keeps Spending Anyway.
Last month, the US Senate passed a resolution saying the over 34 trillion dollars (and growing) national debt threatens national security. A few days later, a bipartisan majority of the Senate voted for a 1.2 trillion dollars spending bill. In addition to the usual increases in war and welfare spending, the bill funds gender transitioning […]
Taking AI Existential Risk Seriously
This episode is notable not just for cyberlaw commentary, but for its imminent disappearance from these pages and from podcast playlists everywhere. Having promised to take stock of the podcast when it reached episode 500, I’ve decided that I, the podcast, and the listeners all deserve a break. So, I’ll be taking one after the next […]
Is Opposition to Critical Race Theory Correlated with Ignorance of Critical Race Theory?
A new academic study by Brianna Richmond, et al., purports to show that opposition to Critical Race Theory is correlated with ignorance of CRT. The quiz the authors use, however, to determine the level of knowledge of CRT is quite problematic. CRT, being a body of academic work, does not have a singular position on […]
6 Myths About Globalization, Trade, Jobs, and “Buy American” (John Stossel)
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Poking the Russian Bear
I’ve never had much use for diplomats, nor did my father, who called them gigolos and freeloaders living high on the hog off taxpayers like him. “Except for George Kennan,” I used to tell him, and Dad would reluctantly agree. For any of you young whippersnappers unfamiliar with George Kennan, he was the author of […]
The Important Legacy of Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom
F.A. Hayek’s classic The Road to Serfdom wa Read More Article from Mises Institute Mises InstituteThe Mises Institute’s website is a treasure trove for enthusiasts of Austrian economics, libertarian philosophy, and classical liberalism. Serving as both an educational platform and a research resource, the site offers a vast array of articles, academic papers, books, and […]