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Tuesday, August 19, 2025
 
 
Bureaucrats in Ranger Hats: Why Government Park Management Fails
Timothy D. Terrell
Americans wrongly believe that the best way to take care of our scenic lands is through government ownership and administration. The reality is that bureaucrats are not good land managers, and certainly not as good as private owners.
 
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Creative Chaos: Inside the CIA’s Covert War to Topple the Syrian Government
Joseph Solis-Mullen
What really happened in Syria? Ruling US elites and Israel have spun the narrative that advocates of democracy were rebelling against a brutal authoritarian regime. The truth is that once again, US policy has made things even worse for Syria.
 
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Intellectual Origins of Natural Rights
 
Marco Bassani on how natural law is the oldest and most frequently-used concept in political theory.
 
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Isolationism and the Foreign New Deal
 
World War II politics crushed isolationism, replacing it with a bipartisan foreign policy of global intervention.
 
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Stuck in Jackson Hole
The Federal Reserve has what the New York Times called its “biggest shindig” of the year at Jackson Hole, Wyoming next week. What mischief are they up to?
 
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Murray Rothbard on Billionaires
In the US, billionaires increased from 66 in 1990 to 748 in 2023, while the dollar’s value dropped 59 percent. How much is due to policy versus free markets?
 
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The Lunatic Core of Radical Legal Egalitarianism
Legal scholar Richard Posner labeled critical race theory as having a “lunatic core,” echoing what Ludwig von Mises years before had written about polylogism.
 
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Stuck in
Jackson’s Hole
 
Mark explores the history, politics, and pageantry of the world’s most exclusive monetary policy conference. 
 
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Hayek for the 21st Century—Our New 100,000 Book Giveaway
 
Hayek for the 21st Century is a primer for the layperson, introducing a new generation of readers to Hayek’s writings and hopefully avoiding the 20th century’s mistakes in the 21st century.
 
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