The Wire Turns Twenty
I had never even heard of HBO’s The Wire until it was already off the air, available only on DVDs....
Robert E. Wright
Censoring Edward Atkinson, the 19th Century’s Elon Musk
As Americans continue to reel from years of dismisinfoganda, government censorship, and government-inspired, if not directed, private censorship, they would...
Marketplace Liberation
Professors Rachel S. Ferguson and Marcus M. Witcher recently teamed up with Emancipation Books to bless the world with a...
Let Them Eat Breast Milk
When I learned that Bette Midler’s response to the baby formula supply crisis was “TRY BREASTFEEDING,” I immediately thought of...
Preparing for Payment System Fragility
In previous posts, I suggested ways to cope with rising prices (COLA) and food insecurity (wild game and liberty gardens)....
A Musk Inspired Anti-ESG Takeover Wave?
It’s fun to see memes suggesting that Elon Musk should buy Alphabet, Amazon, Coca Cola, Disney, Meta, Netflix, YouTube, and...
A Musk Inspired Anti-ESG Takeover Wave?
It’s fun to see memes suggesting that Elon Musk should buy Alphabet, Amazon, Coca Cola, Disney, Meta, Netflix, YouTube, and...
Government-Induced Inequality
French economist Thomas Piketty – author of Capital, the least read book of 2014, and now A Brief History of...
Betting on Social Media
The term “social media” is something of a misnomer. I wouldn’t go so far as to call it dismisinfoganda, but...
Lessons From America’s First Great Inflations
New England first experienced significant inflation in the first half of the 1700s, and got out of it by banning...
What, to the Classical Liberal, Is Patriots’ Day?
Mr. President Ruger, Colleagues, and Fellow Classical Liberals: An internal memo says that I am to deliver a Patriots’ Day...
Liberty Gardens
Every American who can plant a “Liberty Garden” this year should do so. Akin to the “Victory” Gardens planted during...
