Assuming state legislatures find the political will to defund courses on pornography , and the Congress ends the student-loan crony capitalism bonanza , what would a world of privatized universities look like? It could look very good, it turns out. First of all, without subsidization, very few students are likely to pay out of their own pockets
Libertarians enjoy accusing each other of blind devotion to their favorite ideas and thinkers. In fact, it almost seems like a major pastime in the liberty movement to make this charge, and to revel with others in self-congratulatory “gotcha!” moments directed toward members of the outgroup. I find this state of affairs frustrating, all the more
Writing this week for Bloomberg , Tyler Cowan made the case that Brazil is “still the country of the future.” While I share Cowan’s optimism for the nation’s future, his focus on the country’s diversity, size, and vaguely federalized political structure overlooks the real story – that Austrian economics and libertarianism is winning the battle of
It’s hard to believe that Mises University 2016 ended just last week. While most of the Mises U lectures are available for free , it’s impossible to capture the true essence of Mises U from these alone. Luckily, Mises University left such an impact on the students who attended that many have felt compelled to share their experiences. Writing for
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan recently signed an executive order forbidding Maryland public schools from beginning classes before Labor Day. Governor Hogan’s executive order benefits businesses in Maryland’s coastal areas that lose school-aged summer employees and business from Maryland families when schools start in August. However, as Governor
Perhaps no term is more banal, yet more terrifying, than “public policy.” It conjures up images of DC think tanks and bureaucrats, a land where intellectualism serves as cover for a stultifying grind of new regulations. It also puts the American public to sleep, as evidenced by a decided lack of “policy” discussion in the 2016 presidential
In his monograph on public education, Education: Free and Compulsory , Murray Rothbard writes: The idea that the school should not simply teach subjects, but should educate the “whole child” in all phases of life, is obviously an attempt to arrogate to the State all the functions of the home. It is an attempt to accomplish the molding of the
History was made this weekend in Brazil as protesters numbering in the millions took to the streets to protest for the removal of President Dilma Rousseff, who has been embroiled in a massive corruption scandal while Brazil’s economy has suffered from a devastating recession. As Retuers reported : The demonstrations were the latest in a wave of
[Excerpt from Human Action ] A critical examination of the philosophical systems constructed by mankind’s great thinkers has very often revealed fissures and flaws in the impressive structure of those seemingly consistent and coherent bodies of comprehensive thought. Even the genius in drafting a world view sometimes fails to avoid contradictions
The Virginia Tech Professor who blew the whistle on lead in the water in Flint, MI thinks “public science” has been broken. Not knowing its been a broken system all along. In a recent interview , he comes forth with a stinging indictment of government-supported science. He does understand that this widespread problem of incompetent, worthless
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