Ralph Raico could expound at length on any historical topic I threw at him, and knew more economics and philosophy than most professors of either subject.
July 28, 2023 What Happens If the Cow Moves Away?
In a welfare state, there are two sectors: the parasitic sector and the producing sector. The parasitic sector attaches onto the producing sector and begins sucking the lifeblood out of the producing sector, much like leeches that attach themselves to a cow and begin sucking blood out of the cow. The leeches have to be careful, however. Their survival and well-being depend on ...
The Iraq War Was a Systematic Atrocity
by James Bovard
Media coverage of the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War mostly portrayed the war as a blunder. There were systematic war ...
Jeremy Bentham, Usury Laws, and the CFPB by Laurence M. Vance
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in a case that challenges the constitutionality of the funding of the federal Consumer Financial ...
How Evil Are Politicians? Part 2 by George Leef
Caplan follows up on that observation with a devastating point about the calculating political mindset. Suppose that a politician had to...
