King Canute and the Virus Tide
Nine-hundred years ago, the English historian Henry of Huntingdon wrote down an older Anglo-Saxon story/myth of King Canute who claimed…
Authoritarianism in Auckland
For months we’ve heard the cry: oh how wonderfully New Zealand dealt with the Coronavirus! They did the tightest lockdown…
We Need a Principled Anti-Lockdown Movement
Shell-shocked is a good way to describe the mood in the U.S. for a good part of the Spring of…
Madness in Melbourne
Melbourne, that glorious city in the state of Victoria in Australia, granted me some of the best travel days of…
Is Immunity a Case of Rothbard’s Lost Knowledge?
Murray Rothbard’s wonderful History of Economic Thought opens with a blast against what he called the Whig theory of intellectual…
The Virus Doesn’t Care about Your Policies
Based on the data, there seems to be no relationship between lockdowns and lives saved. That’s remarkable, given that we…
The Bloodless Political Class and Its Lack of Empathy
Why watch COVID press conferences and briefings by politicians? They are just upsetting. These people seem to have no clue…
How Global Capitalism Boosted Immunities
From the beginning of this virus, political elites have used the language of war. The invisible enemy would be contained,…
Fauci Is Wrong: New York Did Not Do it “Correctly”
After a months-long struggle to contain COVID-19, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo seems confident that he has steered the state…
Policing Can and Should Be Privately Provided (Video)
The U.S. is at a crossroads on the topic of policing. The usual binary has framed the debate: support the…