The Daily Libertarian
Economics and Politics for your Daily Life
Collapse by Cost by Design: How Incentives Separate Cost from Consequence, and Why That Ends in Collapse
Jamie stands in line at the county welfare office once every month. She knows the routine. She takes a number,…
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Toxic Masculinity Is a Myth
We are told masculinity is toxic. Tell that to Chesty Puller. Lewis Burwell ‘Chesty’ Puller was the most decorated Marine…
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Iran: a War for Our Time
Iran calls the nuclear bomb the ‘Sword of Allah.’ That phrase is not a metaphor. It comes from Qur’anic verses…
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The Price Delusion: How Keynesian Economics Replaced Real Growth With Bubbles
Young people in America today believe the economy has failed them. They look at the entry point for new homes…
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The Body Politic: How America’s Political Parties Are Re-Aligning
My first presidential election was in 1992. My friends and I, young idealists who thought George H. W. Bush was…
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Lean Government: Medical Care Without Illusions
My first wife had a cousin who died of a heroin overdose at eighteen. I met her a few times.…
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From Cronkite to Clickbait: How the Media Market Broke Down
Over the past two decades, Dos Equis has run a series of commercials about “The Most Interesting Man in the…
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A Father’s Fascism
When I was 18, I joined the Marine Corps Reserves. After four years, I decided to go full-time. It turns…
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Lean Government: Systemic Free-Market Realism
In my book, The Way Forward: Lean Leadership and Systems Thinking for Large and Small Businesses, I set out to…
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Two Deaths at the Edge of the Law
I want to take a step back this week and look at two events nobody wants to compare, to see…
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