Voluntary cooperation is robust, multiply-protected, and loss-limiting, and brings healthy deflation. A government regulator makes a system fragile, fraught with a single point of failure, and loss-compounding, and brings sickening inflation. Donald Trump and his unity team members Robert Kennedy and Elon Musk promise to limit cronyism and slash waste. Both approaches deny that state-government […]
How do immigrants change American culture? Just asking questions. While the economy ranks as voters’ top concern as of a Wednesday Gallup poll, immigration remains “extremely” or “very” important to 72 percent of registered U.S. voters. As with most issues, there’s a large partisan divide, with 63 percent of Republicans responding that immigration is an […]
During last week’s vice presidential debate, the Republican candidate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R–Ohio), decried “the threat of censorship.” One example he cited was “big technology companies” that are “silencing their fellow citizens.” Vance not only glided over the legally crucial distinction between government-directed censorship and content rules enforced by private social media companies on their […]
These Trusted Flaggers are charged with eradicating “hate speech” and “fake news” from social media; platforms that ignore their Trusted Flagging can be fined or face other serious sanctions. Are you one of those schoolmarm hall-monitor types? Do you have a screechy voice and do you enjoy looking down your nose at other people? Do […]
If he is returned to the White House, former President Donald Trump promises new rounds of higher tariffs that would target nearly all imports into the United States, drive up prices for consumers and businesses, and weaken America’s economy. But campaign trail promises often melt away under the practical and legal realities of governing. To […]
