by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 1, 2017 | Environment
According to Al Gore, Prince Charles, Bill Nye, and a host of other high-profile enviro-scolds, the world’s burning of carbon fuels is the death knell of civilization itself. Setting their hyperbole aside – the current state of knowledge points more...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 31, 2017 | Economics, Politics
Creative Destruction. Two words that summarize the free market’s perpetual pressures, the constant improvements in productivity that make our lives wealthier, easier, and better. New ways of doing things replace old ones. Printing presses replaced scribes. Farm...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 30, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
It has been a scant few years since leftists, liberals, progressives, and statist dreamers sang the praises of Venezuela’s socialism. The roster of famous praisers includes Noam Chomsky, Oliver Stone, Jesse Jackson, Michael Moore, Jeremy Corbyn, a Hillary...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 25, 2017 | Economics, Taxation
If you’re a libertarian who’s wallowed in that political mud for a while, you know the “Muh roads!” gag. The rest of you – the normal people who may even know a fair bit about libertarianism but haven’t spent endless hours debating...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jul 25, 2017 | Culture, Politics
Consider two recent examples of the resistance to change that politically entrenched organizations put forth, two sides of the same coin, that go together like peanut butter and chocolate. One, which I am dubbing the Freddie Gray syndrome, is the argument that reforms...
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