Politics

I became interested in the question of whether a true market in healthcare can work. I think it is a fantastically interesting subject. It has been the focus of my…

Governments at all levels play the same game—always threatening to eliminate school buses, police departments, ambulances, garbage collection—whatever can succeed in bringing the voters or appropriation committee members to their…

The federal bureaucracy has been called a “headless fourth branch of government.” So long as this unchecked army of bureaucrats, technocrats, and deep-state operatives is allowed free rein, it will…

What the “legacy” media is trying to present as a brand-new authoritarian crackdown on the press is only a more visible version of how the federal government has attempted to…

Bob hosts economists Vincent Geloso and Chandler Reilly to discuss their new paper, which applies Rothbard’s “Private Product Remaining” to rethink how national output is measured.

Protectionism really isn‘t a theory of betterment for all but a claim that certain people in certain occupations are special. They must be paid more handsomely than the market—meaning you…

Marxism has infected not only our body politic but also most of our institutions from higher education to religious organizations, as Marxists insist that human action is determined by class…

With US Government bonds being downgraded, another sign that Washington’s borrowing and spending is out of control, not that anyone in power is listening. Think of the downgrade as a…

The American Revolution was fought to free American colonists from an overbearing British government. Yet, only a few years after independence, Americans had created a constitutional government that would wield…

The 19th century saw the creation and expansion of railroads in the United States, which hauled freight and carried paying passengers. One offshoot from privately-owned railroads was the creation of…