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Minimum Wage Fallout Is Caused by Government, Not Businesses
Minimum Wage Fallout Is Caused by Government, Not Businesses Employees don’t magically become more productive because businesses have to pay them more, so they need to make up the losses elsewhere. Both in Canada and in the U.S., many jurisdictions have “listened” to the people and enacted feel-good legislation like increasing the minimum wage, sometimes […]
The 10 Habits of Logical People
The 10 Habits of Logical People The authentically logical person keeps his logic rooted in truth and never lets it devolve into mere verbal trickery. Becoming a logical person is not just a matter of memorizing and applying formulas, or learning how to tell the difference between a valid and an invalid syllogism. Rather, it […]
Macron Is Using the “Fake News” Excuse to Attack Press Freedom
Macron Is Using the “Fake News” Excuse to Attack Press Freedom Only on the free market of ideas can information be checked and double-checked. In press statements for the beginning of this year, French president Emmanuel Macron announced his plans for cracking down on fake news. Haunted by the controversial Macron Leaks towards the end […]
Missile False Alarm in Hawaii: How Wrong Buttons Can Wreak Havoc
Mobile phone users in Hawaii saw this message. Missile False Alarm in Hawaii: How Wrong Buttons Can Wreak Havoc Should the survival of humanity hinge on bureaucratic protocols? On Saturday at 8:05 am, residents of Hawaii were terrified by a text message that said a missile was heading their way, and they should “seek shelter […]
Renaissance Italy Presents a Strong Case for Decentralization
Renaissance Italy Presents a Strong Case for Decentralization Common wisdom tells us that without a clear leader and monopoly on force, chaos reigns until a new order is established. My political theory is rooted in a single axiom that I came to independently: governments are mafia. I actually came to this conclusion in the reverse […]
If You Don’t Trust People, Then You Shouldn’t Trust Politics
If You Don’t Trust People, Then You Shouldn’t Trust Politics If people can’t be trusted to make their own decisions, why would those same people be trusted to make decisions for the rest of us? “Ordinary people can’t be trusted to make the right decisions about what’s best for themselves and others. That’s why we […]
H.G. Wells and Orwell on Whether Science Can Save Humanity
H.G. Wells and Orwell on Whether Science Can Save Humanity Though Wells and Orwell were debating in the era of Nazism, many of their arguments reverberate today. In the midst of contemporary science’s stunning discoveries and innovations – for example, 2017 alone brought the editing of a human embryo’s genes, the location of an eighth […]
Can a Country Commit Suicide by Taxation?
Can a Country Commit Suicide by Taxation? Certainly, an economy can be seriously damaged by reckless taxation, but Greece seems determined to see if it can be outright destroyed by it, too. Greece has confirmed that a nation can spend itself into a fiscal crisis. And the Greek experience also has confirmed that bailouts exacerbate a fiscal […]
Europe Is Flirting with a Disaster for Free Speech
Europe Is Flirting with a Disaster for Free Speech The controversial Article 13 is getting some push-back from some officials, but it isn’t dead yet. Freedom of speech is undoubtedly one of the most important features of any democratic society. Without it, knowledge could not be shared, injustices could not be called out, and the […]
Fed Official Decries Bitcoin as “Not Backed”
Fed Official Decries Bitcoin as “Not Backed” Bitcoin is backed by the use value of the distributed ledger in the underlying technology of the Blockchain. Randal K. Quarles, a Trump administration appointee to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and Vice Chair for bank supervision, has given a lengthy speech (“Thoughts on Prudent Innovation in […]
Censorship Comes to Google
Censorship Comes to Google Senator Feinstein rather boldly asked Google to take action to hamper RT’s ability to communicate its views to American audiences. At Saturday’s Halifax International Security Forum, Eric Schmidt announced that Google will alter its search algorithm to “de-rank” results from Russia Today. Why did Google do this? Perhaps they were concerned […]
Is America a Police State?
Is America a Police State? The current state of the United States’ criminal justice system, if it can even be called that anymore, is truly appalling. Recently, in a small town in Pennsylvania, an insurance agent for Nationwide Insurance noticed a certain plant growing in a garden on the property he was inspecting. This insurance […]
The International Road to Serfdom
The International Road to Serfdom When a global governing body is the ultimate authority, rather than multiple sovereign nations serving as checks and balances to each other the opportunity for abuse is ripe. In the previous chapter of The Road to Serfdom, F.A. Hayek spelled out his concerns for the problems facing America in the […]
The Government Has Been Meddling in Food and Nutrition for a Long Time
The Government Has Been Meddling in Food and Nutrition for a Long Time For over a century, the federal government has had its hand in shaping what we eat in a multitude of ways, usually to bad effect. Government intrusion is often obvious. We know when government taxes our income, stops us from using our […]
