Gun Laws and Decentralization: Lessons from “Constitutional Carry”
Few political movements can boast of success like the firearms movement in the United States. Often overlooked is how before the 1980s there was no concept of licensed, let alone unlicensed, concealed carry in the overwhelming majority of the country. The
Colonies Compared: Why British Colonies Were More Economically Successful
Last month, British black studies professor Kehinde Andrews argued that the British Empire was “far worse than the Nazis.” It was a controversial comparison to be sure, but it raises the question: Compared to other expansionist regimes, how bad was
Terminate NATO
The Washington Post has published a long piece calling for NATO to take on a new official enemy—China. The piece is written by Sara Bjerg Moller, an assistant professor in the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University. She argues that
Daniel McCarthy on the Prospects for Fusionism
Daniel McCarthy joins the show to continue last week's discussion of the rapid breakdown of America's political order, with wokeism rising on the Left and Reaganism dying on the Right. McCarthy gives us his critique of the liberal technocratic order,
Decentralization Is a Step toward Self-Determination
For decades now, advocates for freedom and free markets have disagreed over whether or not political decentralization and local self-governance are important principles in themselves. Most recently, this debate flared up here at mises.org over the issue of state-level preemptions of
Hayek’s Political Argument against Socialism
Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom was a bestseller when it was published in 1944, and it has remained ever since one of the classic works in the literature of liberty. Many people, though, find it hard to understand. After
Why Beijing Wants a Digital Yuan
In his 2011 book On Russia, former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger used the ancient Chinese game of Weiqi, or Go, as it is also commonly known, as an extended metaphor to conceptualize and explain the decisions of the Chinese regime in both foreign and
This NYTimes Writer Thinks Too Much “Small Government” Caused the Covid Crisis
What’s the big lesson New York Times readers are getting after a year of coronavirus? America’s small government and frugal spending habit caused the unprecedented economic disaster, according to an op-ed by Zachary D. Carter. Carter’s devotion to John Maynard Keynes and his interventionist economic ideology seems to blind
‘Break Out’: Dead Poets Society- Review
-By Akshata Sinha Dead Poets Society is a 1989 drama, written by Tom Schulman and directed by Peter Weir. Set in the year 1959, it follows the life at the fictional all-male elite, and conservative prep school – Welton Academy, and
The Role of Covid Lockdowns in 2020’s Homicide Surge
Twenty twenty was an unpleasant year for so many reasons. It was a year of riots, unemployment, and the trend in overall rising mortality continued unabated. Homicides also increased. In fact, in preliminary homicide data, it looks like homicides increased a lot