Nations as such don’t gain or lose from trade; only individual traders do. If the trades into which these people voluntarily enter entice them by the prospect of mutual gain, it simply cannot be the case that the sum total of their transactions amounts to a bad deal.
November 13, 2019 America's Soldiers Did Not Fight or Die for Freedom
One of the sacred myths promulgated on Veteran’s Day by U.S. officials, especially those in the deep state (i.e., the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA), is that American soldiers have fought and died for freedom. It’s all false propaganda, however, as an examination of each foreign war in which U.S. soldiers have fought and died will easily show....
Inessential Government Workers
by Laurence M. Vance
Government “shutdowns” in the United States occur when Congress and the president cannot agree on appropriations bills to fund the federal government before the ...
The "Officer Friendly" Police Fantasy
by James Bovard
Police in Tempe, Arizona, announced plans in July for a “positive ticketing” campaign to pull over drivers who had violated no traffic laws. A ...
The Case for Open Immigration
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Every American living today has lived his entire life under an immigration crisis. That shouldn’t surprise anyone. America’s system of immigration controls is based ...
A New Kind of Tyranny
by John W Whitehead
All of us are in danger. In an age of prosecutions for thought crimes, pre-crime deterrence programs, and government agencies...
The Libertarian Angle: Open Borders
by Bryan Caplan, Jacob Hornberger, and Richard Ebeling
Special guest Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, joins Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling ...