Thomas Woods
November 29th, 2011
This question has been asked quite a bit. Here’s a brief answer.(1) If Ron Paul, the most revolutionary candidate in U.S. history, gets elected, it indicates a massive shift in public opinion. Politicians are known for...
October 27th, 2011
A critic writes:Our entire system is based is based on profits and losses driving decision making and economic activity, but our accounting does not always capture all the costs.If I open a new factory near a river for 5...
September 26th, 2011
The feed-at-the-government-trough scientific establishment hates a truth-teller like Terence Kealey, who makes mincemeat of every argument you’ve ever heard for government science funding. His work had a major impact on my...
August 20th, 2011
Naji Filali of the Harvard Political Review interviewed me the other day. A sample:HPR: As a senior fellow at the Mises Institute, you have your fingers on the pulse of current policy debates. Which policy...
July 18th, 2011
That’s what Attorney General Eric Holder is pushing for.
July 5th, 2011
Left-liberals have been arguing that the 1798 Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen, which none of them knew about until well after Obama’s health-care bill passed, makes Obama’s bill constitutional. Touching as...
April 22nd, 2011
Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson launched his 2012 presidential campaign Thursday. The commissars of approved opinion instantly condemned him for deviating from the Biden/Romney spectrum. Like Ron Paul, Johnson has...
November 16th, 2011
A reader in Brazil writes to observe that Ron Paul is very good at explaining his positions if he’s given adequate time to do so. Why not do it, then? Let people hear, from Dr. Paul’s own mouth, what he believes across a...
October 5th, 2011
Harvard’s Dani Rodrik tweets: “Friedman famously used the pencil as an example of the virtues of markets. A socialist/interventionist country (CHN) runs that industry now.”For one thing, it was Leonard Read, not Friedman,...
September 4th, 2011
Some familiar themes here, but I am emphasizing that the most significant thing about state nullification, about which I have written a book, is that the very discussion of it involves str
July 22nd, 2011
As usual, the correct position is the exact opposite of what the major networks bark at you. Among many other good things, lowering the debt ceiling would improve investor confidence, by making clear that fewer resources...
July 14th, 2011
Obama warns that Social Security payments might not go out if the budget and debt-ceiling impasse is not resolved. I am no supporter of scams funded by expropriation, but if Social Security payments are not made, it will not...
June 10th, 2011
The heroic Foundation for a Free Society is producing a documentary on nullification. Here’s a trailer: