Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.
Those Scary and Dangerous Russkies
It was always inevitable that the Pentagon’s and the CIA’s “war on terrorism” would begin fizzling out, especially as the number of foreigners they were killing significantly diminished. When U.S. forces got booted out of Afghanistan and began killing significantly less people in Iraq, the rage that motivates terrorists to strike began going down. That’s undoubtedly why the Pentagon hedged its bets ...
The Roots of American Dysfunctionality, Part 2
by Jacob G. Hornberger
The United States once had the finest health-care system in history. When I was growing up in the 1950s — before Medicare and...
Biden's Atrocious Assange Prosecution
by James Bovard
“A confident government that is unafraid of the truth embraces a free press,” proclaimed Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. But he was referring only ...
Why Does NPR Still Exist? by Laurence M. Vance
One of the hallmarks of authoritarian countries is that the media is state-run or under the direct supervision or control of the government. The Xinhua ...
