It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.
–H.L. Mencken [1926]
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
November 29, 2023 Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription
If your doctor gets the diagnosis wrong, it is almost certain that he’s going to get the prescription wrong. If he concludes, for example, that your stomach ache is nothing more than indigestion, when the problem actually is cancer, the medicine he prescribes is probably not going to do you much good. The same holds true for diagnoses for ailments that afflict the ...
America's National-Security State by Jacob G. Hornberger
The following is a nonverbatim transcript of a talk that I delivered on September 1, 2023, at the young scholar’s segment of the annual ...
Reform, Replace, or Repeal? by Laurence M. Vance
The U.S. government is a monstrosity. With its four million employees and annual budget approaching $7 trillion, there is no other way to describe ...
The Classical Economists: Frédéric Bastiat by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the significance of the classical economist Frederic Bastiat. Go ...
