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Yes, Car Seat Laws Reduce the Birth Rate

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10/2/2024

Why the Family Is Not the Model for the State

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10/1/2024

The Rise of the Western Nuclear Family and the “European Miracle”

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9/14/2024

The National Socialists Were Enemies of the West

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9/9/2024

Powell: More Easy Money Is Coming Soon

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8/27/2024

Kamala Wants Price Controls, and It’s Not Because She Has “Good Intentions”

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8/17/2024

What Ludwig von Mises Meant by ‘Democracy’

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8/15/2024

Self-Determination, Imperialism, and Secession

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8/14/2024

Princeton Historian: Just Get Over Watergate Already!

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8/9/2024

The ‘October Revolution’ Was a Coup, Not a Revolution

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8/3/2024

The Fed Is Holding Interest Rates Steady. This Won’t Last Much Longer.

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8/2/2024

Socialism, Not US Sanctions, Ruined the Venezuelan Economy

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8/1/2024

Unelected Technocrats Are Now the Nation’s Chief Executives

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7/26/2024

Choose One: Law Enforcement at Trump Shooting Was Either Incompetent or Complicit

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7/20/2024

There Is No Such Thing as ‘Wage Slavery’

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6/24/2024

Frédéric Bastiat Was a Radical Opponent of War and Militarism

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6/20/2024

Saudi Arabia Drifts Away from Washington and the Dollar

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6/17/2024

The Mises Institute’s Concern Trolls

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6/3/2024

We Oppose the State, Its Socialism, and Its Wars

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5/30/2024

Excellent Talk from John Mearsheimer on the State of Israel v. the Palestinians

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5/22/2024

How Westward Expansion Strengthened the Federal Government

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5/18/2024

The Problem with Microlibertarianism

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4/29/2024

Speaker Mike Johnson Continues the GOP’s War Against Freedom

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4/25/2024

Tariffs Are Taxes on Americans—But Protectionists Pretend Otherwise

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4/24/2024

Trump Is Right about Abortion and Lindsey Graham Is Wrong

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4/18/2024

A Lecture on State Militias and the Second Amendment

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3/23/2024

Covid Showed Us Who Really Rules America

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3/11/2024

Thomas Jefferson Still Supported Secession Forty Years After the Declaration of Independence

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2/7/2024

A Short History of the Right to Self-Determination

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2/5/2024

It’s Biden vs. Texas, and Texas Is Right.

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1/30/2024

The United States Is a Colonial Empire, and an Extremely Successful One

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1/29/2024

‘Humanitarianism’ as an Excuse for Colonialism and Imperialism

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1/22/2024

Immigration and Geopolitics: Should Latvia Have an Open Border with Russia?

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1/11/2024

Why More Secession Means Lower Taxes and More Trade

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1/5/2024

When Nationalism Fuels Decentralization and Secession: Lessons from the Cold War

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1/2/2024

How Capitalism Made Christmas a Holiday for Children

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12/27/2023

The Immorality of Protectionism

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12/2/2023

You’re Paying for the Israel War. You’ll Also Pay for the Refugees.

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11/16/2023

There’s No Easy Way Out of This Debt Spiral

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11/9/2023

Get the US Out of the Middle East

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10/11/2023

Dollarization Puts Foreign Economies at the Mercy of the US Regime

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10/7/2023

The Left Is Now Telling Us (Ukrainian) Nazis Aren’t So Bad After All

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10/6/2023

Three Reasons Why Military Recruitment Is in Crisis

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9/14/2023

The State Protects Itself While Crime Against Ordinary People Surges

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8/22/2023

Credit Crunch: The Money Supply Has Shrunk For Eight Months In a Row

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8/10/2023

The Anatomy of the State

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop

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7/31/2023

Why ‘Classical’ Liberals Want Decentralization

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7/24/2023

Daniel Ellsberg Was Right. So Are Assange and Snowden.

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6/30/2023

Radical Decentralization Was the Key to the West’s Rise to Wealth and Freedom

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6/28/2023

How ‘Squatter Democracy’ Created America’s First Welfare Program

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6/14/2023