Japan has not recovered fully from the lost decade of the 1990s. The Asian financial crisis was exacerbated by the dot-com crash and then a few years later the global economic collapse.
The government accepts no legal obligation to provide specified law enforcement services in exchange for the taxes it forcibly extracts from the citizenry. A clearly defined and voluntarily accepted reciprocal agreement between the government and the citizens has never existed.
Luckily, the civilized world has Ludwig von Mises. This year, we're sending to all of our supporters who donate $25 or more a copy of an important Mises lecture, "Marxism and the Manipulation of Man."
Should the medical school curriculum include health inequity, climate change, and gun control? Accad and Koka interview Professor Stanley Goldfarb, author of a recent and controversial op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the politicization of medical education.