The Fun Night that Wasn’t Fun
“May this wonderful country be forever spared another nightmare such as 2020 has brought. The way to make sure that happens is finally to recognize and embrace the limits of state power. Let them figure out how to count ballots before they ever again take away our freedoms in the name of virus management.” ~ Jeffrey Tucker
READ MOREHow To Secede from the Biology Wars
I don’t really care who started this war. It’s a war that no one can win.
READ MOREThe Economics of Dracula
Vlad the Impaler and his literary incarnation — Count Dracula — have real historical roots in a dark period of economic nationalism.
READ MOREVoting Is Not Self-Expression
Voting may be many things, but the least of them is self-expression. Conceding the sufficiency of multi-billion dollar political contests among highly vetted, meticulously-coached candidates is a guaranteed road to self-negation.
READ MOREThe Dangers of Totalitarian Planning, Past and Present
All forms of government intervention — taxation and regulation — within a market economy are forms of government planning.
READ MORERemember What the Internet Is All About
Some great minds are remembered mostly for one moment in time, a momentous action or revelatory piece of writing. Such is the case for John Perry Barlow, who died on February 7, 2018. Born in 1947, he was a remarkable visionary, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead who later became a founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which defends your rights as a citizen of the digital age. He is the author of the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace.
READ MOREDear Mr. President, Part 2
In 1969, as the war in Vietnam was raging, AIER Founder Edward C. Harwood and his brothers wrote an open letter to President Richard Nixon.
READ MORERebuilding War-Torn Economies
Research Reports Vol. LXXVIII, No. 9 | May 16, 2011 The U.S. military is developing a civilian-military collaboration for reconstruction and economic development of nations like Afghanistan. by Brigadier General Eric Peck, Kansas State National Guard, …
READ MOREHow War Amplified Federal Power in the Twentieth Century
Economic Bulletin, December, 2001 One of the ironies of history is that, contrary to Marxist notions, wars do not benefit capitalist economies, but rather tend to create socialist economies. An inescapable feature of wartime government has been th …
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