Since the wildfires (which, in my California childhood and girlhood, used to be called “forest fires”) broke out last week in Los Angeles, I have been living in a kind of anguish. It is not, of course, thankfully, the material agony faced by the millions of people now in a hellscape that used to be a paradise, or the unimaginable agony faced by the tens of thousands who have lost their homes and belongings. Mine is an intellectual […]
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The general idea of Austrian Theory is that the economy is comprised of individuals who make decisions based on their own comfort. If the government is able to discourage fraud, theft, and other violence, that leaves only the entrepreneurial path, where one provides something to other people in exchange for currency, as a way to gain comfort. Is there any disagreement to this that isn’t necessarily anti-human? Why can’t people choose their own healthcare, wages, speech, and have […]
From a Justice Department statement, released Dec. 10 but just posted on Westlaw: Gabriella Oropesa, of Cooper City, Florida, was convicted yesterday for her role in a conspiracy to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate employees of pro-life pregnancy help centers in the free exercise of the right to provide and seek to provide reproductive health services. The defendant and her co-conspirators selected reproductive health facilities that provided and counseled alternatives to abortion and vandalized those facilities with threatening […]
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Di James C. Wilson. Originale pubblicato il 13 dicembre 2024 con il titolo What is a Tariff? Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. La risposta potrebbe stupire gli elettori di Trump. I dazi secondo i sostenitori di Trump Sono quasi dieci anni che Donald Trump propone i dazi come strumento che elimina i mali degli Stati Uniti. Li ha anche definiti “la migliore invenzione di sempre”. Ne ha fatto l’argomento economico centrale di tutta la sua carriera politica. Tanto […]
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is set to begin his third six-year term as the country’s leader after he’s sworn in Friday. This comes despite credible evidence indicating his opponent, Edmundo González, won the election, and as hundreds of people gathered to protest his regime. The opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, came out of hiding to join the demonstrations but her team says she was “violently intercepted.” The Venezuelan government has denied the allegations. Daniel Raisbeck, a policy analyst […]
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