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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Here we go again. Yet another president has found yet another reason to push for regime change in a foreign country. But war with Venezuela will do what most wars do: empower the executive state, drive us further into debt, and destroy freedom. It’s time to stop the current drive to war.

Also today, Marcos Giansante examines the contribution of Karl Popper who, like Mises and Hayek, understood the pitfalls of scientism and central planning.

Ryan McMaken, Editor-in-Chief

Stop the Drive to War with Venezuela

Ryan McMaken

Trump’s posture reminds us of Madeleine Albright’s famous complaint: “What’s the point of having this superb military that you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?”

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Lysander Spooner and Other Antebellum Radicalism

Anti-slavery constitutionalism, consent of the governed, and a principled case for secession.

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Personal Liberty

Murray Rothbard on self-ownership, property rights, and the nonaggression principle.

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21st Century First 25 Years: US Government Bankruptcy

A non-exhaustive review of government spending over the last quarter century.

Spooner: We Didn’t Consent to the Constitution

Even those who actually voted for the adoption of the Constitution did not pledge their faith for any specific time.

Three Cheers for the Articles of Confederation

The way the Articles are remembered has more to do with the success of American nationalists than with the actual record.

The Great Depression: An Austrian Reply to WIRED

Bob walks through a recent WIRED video on “the economics behind the Great Depression.”

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