The modern state, unlike the medieval monarchy, does not merely tax to sustain itself or to defend the nation. It taxes to ...

These subsidies exemplify crony capitalism. The Austrian School of economics defines any subsidy as government intervention ...

Ours in an age when people panic, sometimes for good reasons but often for bad. Governments benefit from panicked citizenry, ...

Amtrak is always on the verge of reviving intercity rail traffic in the US, or at least that is what politicians want us to ...

The blackout in Spain was not caused by a cyberattack but by the worst possible attack—that of politicians against their own ...

William Nordhaus coined the term “Political Business Cycle” a half-century ago. The idea was that government authorities, ...

The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but ...

Like presidents before him, Donald Trump is using the IRS as a weapon against organizations he doesn‘t like. Richard Nixon ...

The Fed is now hemmed in by a rising risk of stagflation. It doesn‘t know where the economy is headed, or is unwilling to ...

The late P.T. Bauer provided much insight into the issue of the so-called First World sending aid to Third World nations in ...

Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews The Price of Our Values by Augustin Landier and David Thesmar. While the authors claim ...

Office and Powers, 1878-1957 has argued that the Constitution is a tussle for control between the executive and legislature.