Squirmy and Grubs play both sides: they bait us for the easy attention and fame that their incongruous physicality brings, but they also want to be seen as serious activists.
Category: philosophy
The Classical Economists’ Theory of Value Was More Sophisticated than You Think
Bob quotes from David Ricardo to show that the classical economists understood that utility was essential to explaining market value, but then he also explains why the Marginalist Revolution was a scientific advancement.
Personnel is Policy for Kamala Harris
While Kamala Harris has not said much about her proposals for US foreign policy, her associations and likely appointments speak very loudly for the continuation of promoting international conflict and domestic surveillance against dissent.
Thousands of Years Later, Price Controls Are Still a Bad Idea
In 301 AD, Roman emperor Diocletian implemented price ceilings on over 1,200 goods. His edict shows that not much has changed regarding the politics and economics of price controls.
Trans advocate Roxy Tickle wins discrimination case after being banned from women-only app Giggle in Australian court
“Unfortunately, we got the judgement we anticipated. The fight for women’s rights continues.”
Democrats to Escalate Their War on the American Economy
Democrats didn’t even bother to wait for their 2024 National Convention in Chicago to appoint their replacement presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, and to tout the new economic planks to be added to the party’s platform. In her August 16th speech on the economy, she pledged her loyalty to the party’s current interventionist agenda, professing that…
Is There a Praxeological Ethics?
David Gordon reviews J.W. Rich’s new book, Praxeological Ethics: An Inquiry into the Nature and Foundation of Ethics and finds much to like about this volume.
When Genocide, Snuff Films, Extra-Judicial Assassinations and Rape Are De Facto Legal
The totem words and adjectives we use to describe Israel, a perverse and pornographically murderous society, fail. One day flows into the next, each indistinguishable in the level of sadistic torture and carnage dreamed up by the IDF Einsatzgruppen. As televised vignettes at July’s end showed, the Israelis, a “bizarre specimen of moral laxity,” in the…
Powell: More Easy Money Is Coming Soon
The Fed promises a soft landing, but the fact that the Fed now plans to start cutting interest rates is one of the strongest recession signals we can get.
Adam Smith, the American Home, and the Religion of Progress
John Tamny and Jack Ryan get heretical about housing. They argue, in part, that owning a home comes with significant costs and may not be “worth it,” however, individual consumers decide what costs they are willing to undergo and what is “worth it” for them.