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Christmas and the Desacralization of the State
In about the year 9 BC, a group of Greco-Romans in Asia Minor issued a proclamation—now known from the Priene Calendar...
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The Merchant of Death: Basil Zaharoff
If the Lord God Jehovah had not created Basil Zaharoff, some novelist sooner or later would certainly have got around...
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Nationalism: Good and Bad
The historian Allen C. Guelzo in the epilogue to his rather hostile Robert E. Lee: A Life (Knopf, 2021) raises...
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Western Economies Are Self-Destructing with Inflation, Debt, and Taxes
Although reluctantly, current central bank governors and respected economists have ramped up their warnings that inflation is here to stay. However, while it...
Read moreThe State versus Liberty
The Nature of the State So far in this book, we have developed a theory of liberty and property rights,...
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How Much Control Does the Central Bank Have over Interest Rates?
It is a commonly accepted view these days that the central bank is a key factor in the determination of...
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The West Must Stop Trying To Expand NATO into Ukraine
The US and NATO must do as little as possible to contribute to the conflict in Ukraine. This especially includes...
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A Slave-Based Economy Is Nothing Like a Dynamic Capitalist One
The "new history of capitalism" has reprised the debate on the economic viability of slavery by rebranding it as an...
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Life Expectancy in 2020 Fell 2.3 Percent to 77 Years. Does This Justify the Covid Panic?
According to a new report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control, the life expectancy at birth in the...
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The Fed’s Dovish “Tapering” and the ECB
This week, the Federal Reserve gave the most dovish “hawkish” statement ever, an apparent aggressive tapering that, in reality, means maintaining very...
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