Politics

Great Britain‘s Labour government, since coming into power last year, has taken a number of measures that already are resulting in lowering the nation’s standard of living.

The great French economist Frederic Bastiat wrote that we should not look just at the visible results of government economic intervention, but also the good things that the intervention keeps from happening. Trump‘s tariffs are a good example.

In this week‘s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Jim Downs, who exposes the high death rates from disease suffered by newly-freed slaves because of neglect by Union armies.

Should we audit the US gold hoard? First, let’s take a look at what the official numbers say about how big the US gold reserve is, where it is located, and how much it is worth in US dollars.

Bob argues that the only way to cripple Mexican drug cartels is through U.S. drug legalization, explaining how prohibition fuels violence and corruption while debunking common libertarian arguments about the drug trade.

Property taxes, by its critics, have correctly been described as unjust, regressive, and inefficient, in addition to having a disproportionate effect on lower-income homeowners who potentially have more of a struggle to pay them.

Within two months of operation, DOGE has generated sufficient savings to fully repay the debt owed to Mexico or Germany.

While Marxist progressives claim that “class conflict” is the source of social ills, the true conflict involves the tax consuming caste using state power to plunder the productive tax- paying caste.

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