Social Justice
"Social Justice" is a dangerous platitude. It implies that the normal justice system isn't adequate for the...
Category: Politics
Buy American
"Buy American" as a national policy is a really bad idea. It was a bad idea when President Trump used it to...
Empires
“Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international...
Bad Policy
"Rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city - except for...
Hypocrisy
“If hypocrisy were a crime, there’d be no one left to run Washington.” An unusual second Saturday post....
Industrial Policy 101
"On balance, the record of government trying to improve the functioning of the private sector is poor." New...
Reconstruction
There is a feeling, often expressed, that we live in particularly tumultuous times. I often politely ask when we...
Socialist Economics Illustrated
"First Save, Then Buy!" This illustration on this postcard is a reproduction of a matchbook cover distributed...
Election Day Should be a Day
There are a couple of reasons I think that early voting is a bad idea. If during the Civil War when Lincoln was...
Russia/Ukraine
I belong to Postcrossing and many of the active members are from Russia and Ukraine. It has been an interesting year...
