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Grudging, prudential acquiescence, however, is not the same thing as consent, especially when the people acquiesce, as I do, only in simmering, indignant resignation.

Even in areas removed from revenue or profit considerations, free markets can provide value.

Despite the insistence that it's for consumer protection, all occupational licensing is good for is protecting incumbents from competition.

Many users substitute harder street drugs when access to less potent opioids is cut off.

It may be true that "only morons pay the estate tax," but that doesn't make it any less awful.

Senator Feinstein rather boldly asked Google to take action to hamper RT’s ability to communicate its views to American audiences.

The government is using increasingly hostile tactics and illogical methods to get student loans repaid.

If you don't want the slums to burn down, stop incentivizing burning down slums.

You can be a liberal Democrat committed to affordable health insurance for everyone and still be against an individual mandate.

Disempowering individuals and giving a monopoly of self-defense to the state is not a good solution.

The current state of the United States' criminal justice system, if it can even be called that anymore, is truly appalling.

To put it mildly.

Take Hayek's advice and don't let history repeat itself.

Do Americans just call anything a tradition if they make it up, do it once, and forget? Yes.

You don't have to give a lot in order to make a big difference.

One part of the cabaret law banned unlicensed bars from playing piano music.

Antitrust is a regulatory tool to enable some companies to beat up on other companies without having to compete in the free market.

The Earth is flat. NASA is a tax scheme. All you’ve ever heard of satellites, space travel and (of course) the moon landing – is a fraud.

Rip open the packages and toss in the ingredients – bam! Look out Emeril, there’s a new chef in town.

Both in their stories and their lives.

Scott argues that humankind resisted living in one place for many thousands of years precisely to avoid being trapped by states.

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When a global governing body is the ultimate authority, rather than multiple sovereign nations serving as checks and balances to each other the opportunity for abuse is ripe.

For over a century, the federal government has had its hand in shaping what we eat in a multitude of ways, usually to bad effect.

Has authentic romanticism in literature peaked?

Students will thrive as they embrace sound economic principles and realize its direct link to personal and societal flourishing.

Europeans may have brought the guns, but Native Americans definitely brought the arms culture.

These cartoons perfectly capture the left's narrative about the Great Depression, but they also apply to countless other policies.

Forcing “ideal” behavior through coercion does not make people moral. People will do almost anything when forced.

Many people are crippled by deciding how to grade their skills and value.

We are in a very unique period of human history where the collective globe is rethinking what money is and Bitcoin is in the ring battling for complete domination.

There is probably no way for to designate firms as “systemically important” without simultaneously guaranteeing bailouts later.

The victory of liberal ideas resulted in the unleashing of the creative powers of people across the globe.

We need more intelligence and less attempted engineering of preferred outcomes.

There is a cognitive dissonance between believing that there is a high intrinsic value to the environment and that the environment should be free.

The days of K-12 and four years of college are numbered.

It's clear that American leftists are adamantly opposed to cutting taxes if it benefits corporations. But what would they rather have done?

A culture is never static but always in motion propelled by collisions with others.

The EU seems to view every problem with the marketplace, both real and imagined, to be evidence of a conspiracy against consumers and, therefore, should be regulated in some way.

Stop sneering at the unwashed masses mobbing the local Walmart and see Black Friday for what it really is: a big help for poor people.

The Plymouth Pilgrims progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism.

For a time, peace and plenty resulted not in a grateful America but in a complacent one.

Following the brazen violation of McCoy’s autonomy, the jury unanimously convicted him of first degree murder and sentenced him to death.

These benefits will be sooner realized if regulators set innovators free.

Calhoun, Georgia decided to ignore a legal right that has existed for nearly a millennium, but now it's being challenged.

We should take our deregulation where we can get it.

Or maybe they do and are playing us all for suckers.

Saying people have a right to health care is based on a conceptual confusion.

As we take our attention off disagreements with others, we can watch the quality of conversation change.

Our riches did not come from piling brick on brick, or bachelor’s degree on bachelor’s degree, or bank balance on bank balance, but from piling idea on idea.