reason.com: Today in Supreme Court History: January 3, 1911 -- -- 1/3/1911: Justice Willis Van Devanter takes oath.The post Today in Supreme Court History: January 3, 1911 appeared first on Reason.com. #liberty #news
mises.org: American Indians: Separating Truth from Fiction -- -- Depending upon the narrative, American Indians were either noble creatures who were victims of a genocide by rapacious European settlers or were bloodthirsty savages. The truth is more nuanced. #liberty #news
mises.org: Assessing Libertarian Foreign Policy: Rothbard vs. Friedman -- -- In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon assesses the “libertarian” foreign policy prescriptions of Murray Rothbard and David Freidman. Naturally, Rothbard’s view—built upon principles of natural law—stands above Freidman’s less-principled “pragmatism.” #liberty #news
mises.org: The Illogic of Reparations: Historical Standards, Selective Memory, and the Logic of Victory -- -- Demands for Americans to pay reparations to descendants of chattel slavery in America have been growing. The case for reparations, however, has always been weak and illogical. #liberty #news
reason.com: Suit Alleging Retaliatory Police Mislabeling as Repeat Violent Offender Can Go Forward -- -- Plaintiff claims his actual offenses were a curfew violation during 2020 protests and spitting on FBI agent. #liberty #news
reason.com: The DOJ Thinks Cocaine Couriers Are Not Worth Prosecuting. Trump Thinks They Deserve To Die. -- -- Even as the president blows up drug boats, the government routinely declines to pursue charges against smugglers nabbed by the Coast Guard. #liberty #news
mises.org: Roger Farmer Gives a Tour of Macroeconomics -- -- This week, Bob talks with macroeconomist Roger Farmer—who places himself “between Keynes and Hayek”—about how twentieth-century macroeconomics evolved. #liberty #news
mises.org: In the New Year, We Will Hear Even More Environmental Doom Because the Doomsday Industry Never Rests -- -- A wearisome part of modern life is the incessant chants of “doomsday” from intellectual, academic, political, and media elites. That their six decades of predictions all have been wrong only leads them to double down on the volume of their claims. #liberty #news
reason.com: ChatGPT-Generated Poster of Supreme Court Justices Since 1900 -- -- My prompt: Please create a poster showing all the Supreme Court Justices who have served since 1900, in chronological order,…The post ChatGPT-Generated Poster of Supreme Court Justices Since 1900 appeared first on Reason.com. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Panic of 1893: An Austrian View -- -- From an Austrian perspective, the Panic of 1893 provides key lessons, but this consequential panic has not received as much direct attention as it deserves. #liberty #news