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Anthony Fauci, the “Learned Ignoramus”
As the COVID-19 shutdown across the US continues, one cannot but help see the importance of specialization and the division of labor time and time again, as many Americans deal with true shortages of goods...
Exactly How Many Deaths Are Needed to Justify Giving Governments Control of Everything?
The CDC estimates that 61,000 Americans died from the flu during the 2017–18 flu season (with a range of 46,000 to 95,000 deaths). Few of us even remember that event. Stores stayed open, folks...
Anthony Fauci: When Politics Trumps Science
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States became a very public event, the one face that has become most familiar to Americans is that of Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute...
Praxeology and Mathematical Logic
Sometimes critics of praxeology make this complaint about it. Praxeology is supposed to be logically deduced from the concept of action (Mises) or from the action axiom (Rothbard). If so, these deductions should be...
How Shutdowns Will Keep Killing the Economy, Even When They’re Over
Imagine what it is like right now to plan for the future as a business owner. The owner doesn't know if he or she will even be allowed to be open for business two...
Bitcoin and the Theory of Money
In a modern primer on money mechanics, it is necessary to provide at least an introduction to Bitcoin. ((1)) Consequently, in this final chapter we will first give a basic explanation of what Bitcoin is and how...
Next in Coronavirus Tyranny: Forced Vaccinations and “Digital Certificates”
In my first week in the House of Representatives in 1976, I cast one of the two votes against legislation appropriating funds for a swine flu vaccination program. A swine flu outbreak was then...
Police Are Complicit in Politicians’ Disregard for the Rule of Law
People of a certain age might remember the old John Birch Society slogan "Support your local police!" The idea here is that your local policeman is a liberty-loving buddy of yours who would only ever...
When Governments Switched Their Story from “Flatten the Curve” to “Lockdown until Vaccine”
In the early days of the COVID-19 panic—back in mid-March—articles began to appear pushing the idea of "flattening the curve" (the Washington Post ran an article called "Flatten the Curve" on March 14). This idea was...
How the COVID-19 Lockdowns Will Increase Resentment of the Elderly
In an article for the LA Times earlier this month, Laura Newberry contends that the COVID-19 panic has "amplified" ageism in the United States. This is likely true, yet the article completely misses the true cause.
Certainly, ageism is a...