reason.com: New Jersey Town Uses Flimsy Blight Allegations To Seize Tire Shop, Apartment Building -- -- Plus: The White House proposes stiff funding cuts at HUD, Baltimore proposes missing middle reforms, and Gov. Gavin Newsom urges local governments to clear encampments. #liberty #news
mises.org: Jordan Peterson and the Real β€œDark Tetrad” -- -- Peterson implies the β€œdark tetrad” is emerging on the non-interventionist right, cloaking their real intentions with conservative rhetoric. Interestingly, however, a historical parallel exists in neoconservatism, whose intellectual roots are deeply rooted in Machiavellianism. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Tragedy of War -- -- There are no β€œgood wars,” rather, there are wars with varying degrees of destructiveness. The American War Between the States was especially destructive, and the scars have not fully healed 160 years after it ended. #liberty #news
mises.org: Wealth Generation and the Market Economy -- -- A free market economy does not generate jobs or money. Instead, it creates wealth through exchange and production. Government intervention, contrary to what mainstream economists believe, does not enhance wealth, but instead destroys it. #liberty #news
reason.com: Draft Lotteries Suck for Die-Hard Fans -- -- Plus: Yetis, The Seat, and a political letter that will make your eyes roll. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Top Twenty Federal Business Subsidy Receivers -- -- These subsidies exemplify crony capitalism. The Austrian School of economics defines any subsidy as government intervention in the functioning of the economy. #liberty #news
reason.com: Republicans Want To Redefine Obscenity -- -- A new bill would ban sharing visual content that might arouse or titillate. #liberty #news
reason.com: Why DOGE Failed -- -- Elon Musk promised $2 trillion in cuts but delivered only a tiny portion of that total. We asked seven policy experts to explain what he got wrong. #liberty #news
mises.org: Schumpeter on the Dangers of the "Tax State" -- -- The modern state, unlike the medieval monarchy, does not merely tax to sustain itself or to defend the nation. It taxes to reshape society and to manage an increasingly restive population. #liberty #news
mises.org: Wealth Generation and the Market Economy -- -- A free market economy does not generate jobs or money. Instead, it creates wealth through exchange and production. Government intervention, contrary to what mainstream economists believe, does not enhance wealth, but instead destroys it. #liberty #news