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| Thursday, January 1, 2026 |
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Thanks to decades of government intervention, health care prices continue to rise. How does the government propose to solve this? By limiting access, increasing wait times, and lowering quality. This will be described as “free” health care although the cost will be very high, indeed.
Meanwhile, we are plagued by the myth of the “political center” as if our problems will be solved if only we adopt the allegedly “moderate” views deemed acceptable by the regime and its allies.
Happy New Year!
Ryan McMaken, Editor-in-Chief |
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| “Free” Health Care Will Not Fix America’s Medical Crisis |
| Robert Blumen |
| Socialists and progressives demand that the US adopt a “single payer” healthcare system in which the government provides “free” healthcare. However, “free” healthcare is not free at all, as medical care consists of scarce goods which always come as a cost to someone. |
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| Bari Weiss and the Myth of the Political Center |
| Connor O’Keeffe |
| Now at the helm of CBS News, Bari Weiss has become the most prominent figure pushing the idea that America is held hostage by two political “extremes” that have sidelined a large, unified, moderate, and pragmatic political center. That is the opposite of the truth. |
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| Soviet Science |
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| When politics smothers discovery, science becomes propaganda, conformity replaces curiosity, and progress stalls. |
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| Trump, Treason, and the New York Times |
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| Unfortunately, Donald Trump is not the only person to designate the crime of treason to actions that are not even criminal. |
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| Drug War: Trump Takes a Step Toward Liberty |
| President Trump recently signed an executive order changing marijuana’s Controlled Substances Act classification from Schedule I to Schedule III. |
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| The Rise of Mega-Gambling Facilities: A New Skyscraper Curse? |
| Circa casino’s three-story, 78 million-pixel screen in its sportsbook may set a new trend in mega-building designs like skyscrapers. |
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| Fallacies of the Negative Income Tax |
| Trick names corrupt the language and confuse thought. It would hardly clarify matters to call a handout a “negative deprivation” or having your pocket picked “receiving a negative gift.” |
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| Three Economic Fallacies: Holidays, Billionaires, and WWII |
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| Work, wealth, and wartime spending. |
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| Hayek for the 21st Century |
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| The Mises Institute is giving away 100,000 copies of this collection of essays by Austrian School economist and Nobel laureate F. A. Hayek, whom Ludwig von Mises described as “one of the great economists” of all time. The vision of this book is to introduce a new generation of readers to Hayek’s writings. |
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