August 2023

From the Tom Woods Letter: Over the weekend, two black men and one white woman were shot at a Dollar General in Jacksonville, Florida. The shooter, who was white, then took his own life. Since it’s impossible for anyone to be normal anymore, the usual suspects immediately sought to paint a political picture here: why, Ron […]

“We know our country has been temporarily taken over by domestic and foreign enemies, power hungry war criminals are calling the shots right now, but there are many heroes among us, but you didn’t think our military vets and those who refused the shots were just going to sit back and watch did you?” – Jane

Recently the armed forces of Ukraine have come under criticism from their Western military partners for carrying out operations in support of the ongoing counteroffensive in a manner which deviates from the operational theory of combined arms warfare. Combined arms warfare integrates the capabilities inherent in separate combat arms (infantry, artillery, armor, air, electronic warfare,

International Man: Anarcho-capitalist Javier Milei recently won Argentina’s presidential primary. He is now the undisputed front-runner in the upcoming elections. The outcome took many by surprise. Milei is an outsider who bested the country’s two entrenched establishment parties. How did this happen, and why should anyone outside of Argentina care? Doug Casey: It could be the most

So, the Germans are putting me on trial for my thoughtcrimes, and, apparently, I’ve already been found guilty and sentenced. Bear with me and I’ll try to explain. The Berlin District Court has issued a so-called “penalty order” or “order of punishment,” in which I am advised that I am now officially a criminal in

I’ve been on a writing break for several weeks, and today is probably the first time I’ve even entertained a return to writing. Who has the mental space for writing amid college move-ins, back-to-school supply lists and—most glorious of all—a wedding? August in the South is always a weird kind of heat. The sun is

Censorship is ramping up at a rapid clip, and much of it is clearly directed by the U.S. federal government, despite a federal judge’s order prohibiting federal agencies and officials from communicating with social media companies about content moderation.1 In recent days, several news stories have highlighted governments’ and Big Tech’s intent to increase censorship.

In 1990, socialism seemed to be done once and for all, but the times have changed. In the last twenty years, socialism has again become fashionable beyond the academic fringes. The covid-19 crisis demonstrated how quickly and thoroughly the traditionally free societies of the West may be transformed by small groups of determined and well-coordinated

In the good old days, when men were men, it was easy to tell the political ball players without a scorecard, at least from the Socialist and Communist point of view, thanks to economic Marxism. You would always distinguish the good guys from the bad guys. Czarists versus Communists? The former, of course. Bourgeois versus

Many of us shared anecdotes of loved ones vaccinated with COVID-19 vaccines – and suffering from all sorts of unrelated illnesses afterward. I know a young individual who, after mandated COVID vaccination, had all sorts of bacterial illnesses that he never had before. (This story was a major impetus to my opening and growing this