One of the statues that was taken down in the 2020 purge of the Southern statues was that of the great American statesman from South Carolina, John. C. Calhoun. The then mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, John Tecklenburg, said that “while we acknowledge Calhoun’s efforts as a statesman, we can’t ignore his positions on slavery and discrimination.” The reason why, in his opinion, “slavery and discrimination” could not be ignored, was that Black Lives Matter were at the height of […]
Philip G. Hoxie When it comes to trade, other countries are quite literally sending us their best. As I discussed in my recent essay, the costs of shipping goods from country to country means that higher value goods from more productive firms are more likely to be traded. This is called selection into trade, an idea pioneered by economist Mark Melitz. Selection into trade arises because when a good is traded from an exporting country to an importing country, […]
(ACLU) In my recent post about the Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. JGG, the Alien Enemies Act case, I noted that the impact of the decision will in large part be determined by whether non-citizens slated for deportation under the AEA will be allowed to bring habeas class actions to challenge them. If class actions are permitted, then individual detained immigrants won’t have to bring separate habeas cases to challenge their deportation (which many may not have […]
For me it was the Covid lockdowns, seeing the government making all these major changes to my life and me thinking I couldn’t do anything about it, it just made me realise how important individualism actually is to me submitted by /u/Kahootalin [link] [comments]
Chris Edwards President Trump’s anti-market impulses are taking center stage this week with his damaging tariff policies. But the president is occasionally supportive of pro-market reforms, such as his remarks on possibly privatizing the US Postal Service (USPS). A Trump reform push would be welcome because the USPS is an ailing dinosaur in the modern digital economy. The figure below shows that USPS revenues are a shrinking part of gross domestic product (GDP). While revenues from packages and […]
Most of today’s tariff debate is a shiny object that is distracting us from a much bigger and more important issue, of which tariffs are only one piece. Intentional or not, Trump’s tariff talk is a decoy diverting our attention from the bigger picture. And many, if not most, pundits are taking the bait.
You would think it is impossible to call Ludwig von Mises a fascist. He was of course an old fashioned classical liberal, what we would call today a libertarian. Some extreme leftists have even ben stupid enough to claim that Mises was sympathetic to the Nazis. They don’t deny that Mises was a refugee from Nazism, but they say, when it comes down to it, Mises would take fascism, even Nazism, over a Marxist socialist revolution. Of course, […]
A tell-tale sign of having become the victim of propaganda is the eruption of particularly vehement and irrational anger, leading invariably to name-calling, calumny, scapegoating, and insinuation, when confronted with a fact, idea, or argument that might refute the propaganda, or at least make the victim aware of his having been propagandized. This anger eruption is itself a product of the propaganda, a built-in defense mechanism effectively precluding awareness of not only the spurious content of the propaganda […]