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The Little Greatness of America

A Celtic music band plays loudly on the stand. Three little girls look at one another demurely, they exchange a few words and pretty soon they are dancing in front of the stand. The little blonde took...

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The Future of NATO

The recent NATO summit in Chicago that produced absolutely nothing has opponents of the alliance smelling blood. Indeed, the only thing that the Chicago summit may have produced is a healthy...

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France Does not Export Wines, nor Mexico Guacamole, nor Does the US Import...

It’s national election season again. As always happens in this season, in every developed country,  the old battle horse of national competitiveness gets a news coat of shiny paint and is led out by...

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The Case for Peace with Iran

Recently the American ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, publicly let the Israelis know that the United States was ready and able to go to war against Iran. He said that a military attack was the last...

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Anti-Americanism: Lesson One, Europeans

Hostile liberal members of the American media have been repeating for years that the Bush presidency caused the prestige of the US in the world to decline sharply. In addition, they whine endlessly...

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Russian and US Relations: Definitely Cooler and a Further Inquiry Into Why...

I appreciate Evgeniy’s recent remarks on the deterioration of Russian and American relations. This is an issue that has not received as much attention as it should. From my own point of view, I can...

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From the Comments: Open Borders, Immigration and the Sociology of Gradualism

Dr Delacroix takes issue with my woefully inadequate summary of his work on open borders in the Independent Review. He writes: Small yet somewhat important correction: In our piece in the Independent...

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Relative or Absolute Gains: A Question of Conditional Cooperation

From Mastering Space…: The Harvard political economist Robert Reich [...] asked a set of groups of students, investment bankers, professional economists, citizens of the Boston area, and senior State...

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Relative or Absolute Advantage: A Question of Conditional Cooperation

A while back I posted a summary of a question posed by economists to various groups of people in a book I am slowly but surely getting through: The Harvard political economist Robert Reich [...] asked...

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An Exemplar of Governance: The United States and Chinese Citizens

I’ve briefly pointed out the penchant of Chinese citizens to look to the US as a role model for governance before. As Dr Foldvary has argued, it’s about governance, not government. Foreign Policy‘s...

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Imperialism or Federalism: The Occupation of South Korea

A recent op-ed in Foreign Policy highlights South Korea’s very successful rent-seeking campaign in regard to US military services: When it comes to taking charge of coalition forces here on the Korean...

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The Federal Shutdown, the Debt Ceiling and an Extremist’s Morning After

The fake government “shutdown” is already over. I hardly had time to enjoy it. I was just beginning to make a list of federal services that are “non-essential” according to the federal government...

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From the Comments: Liberalization is about much more than just the economy

Andrew is skeptical of NAFTA’s achievements: NAFTA isn’t the only major factor at play, although you’re right that it has provided Mexico with some huge economic benefits. This is especially true in...

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When governments go after witches Borders, Ethnicity and Trade [pdf] A Lonely Passion. Libertarians in China Halloween in Germany: read this with globalization and its critics in mind Should Japan take...

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French Musings on Veterans’ Day

France was one of the least ill-treated countries in Nazi occupied Europe for reasons that are mostly too shameful to recall. In August 1944, in my mother’s arms, I saw one of the first, large...

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Blind Faith

By Adam Magoon On November, 26th Eric Liu, founder of “Citizen University”, a pro-government think-tank, wrote a telling article about having faith in government on the CNN opinion page. He begins the...

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Lost Innocence.

One of the defining features of a “free society” is that the citizens in such a society are innocent of crimes unless proven otherwise by a body that can be trusted to be impartial in its...

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The Iranian Nuclear Deal: An Agreement for All

[Editor's note: the following is a short essay by Payam Ghorbanian. Payam was born in Tehran, Iran. He got his bachelor of science in Engineering from Zanjan University in Zanjan, Iran. He has been...

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Is free trade an expediency?

Jacques Delacroix makes an odd argument over at his blog Facts Matter: Free trade is not a moral principle, it’s an expediency; violating the principle just costs money. This argument comes after he...

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The Power of Propaganda and the Japanese Empire

Economist Kurt Schuler has a fascinating post on the various currencies that were used in mainland East Asia during World War II over at the Free Banking group blog. Unfortunately, there are three...

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