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Saturday, January 3, 2026

In case you missed them, be sure to check out our most popular articles this week:

Edward Fuller on the dishonest anti-capitalism of Charles Dickens.
Lipton Matthews questions the regime narrative in Ukraine.
Carlos Boix looks at Britain’s ruinous economic policies.

Plus new articles on the problem with slavery reparations, and why Rothbard beats Friedman on foreign policy.

Ryan McMaken, Editor-in-Chief

The Illogic of Reparations: Historical Standards, Selective Memory, and the Logic of Victory

Lipton Matthews

Demands for Americans to pay reparations to descendants of chattel slavery in America have been growing. The case for reparations, however, has always been weak and illogical.

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British Politicians Understand Neither Inflation nor Economic Growth

Great Britain’s Labour government continues to pursue the ruinous policies of inflation and out-of-control spending, all in the name of promoting economic growth.

Dickens the Man

Charles Dickens trained many to hate capitalism, but he never understood the difference between envious hatred of wealth and charitable concern for the poor. The true story of his personal life makes this evident.

Revisiting the Maidan Massacre

The February 2014 Maidan Massacre, involving Ukrainian government troops linked to President Yanukovych, led to his overthrow. Could it have been a false flag to blame the government?

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Roger Farmer Gives
a Tour of Macroeconomics

Bob Murphy talks with Roger Farmer about how macroeconomics evolved.

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In the New Year, We Will Hear Even More Environmental Doom Because the Doomsday Industry Never Rests

The wearisome, incessant chants from the elites.

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Silver’s Growing Pains

$50 wasn’t the finish line. It was the starting gun for policy finger-pointing and real-world bottlenecks.

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Three Economic Fallacies: Holidays, Billionaires, and WWII

Forget the feel-good myths.

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The Misesian

The latest issue of The Misesian discusses why, without private property, there is no way to plan for the future, and one’s goods are always subject to confiscation from the more powerful. In other words, a world without private property is a lawless world.