“Governments create money all the time. We do that for war.” “This whole notion that you run government like you run a household…is a complete myth”Economist Prof Mariana Mazzucato tells #Newsnight Government’s should address social issues through...
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The New Rules of Engagement
by Jeff Deist | Jan 24, 2023 | Featured Articles
Not that long ago, my grandparents explained to me why they never discussed politics, religion, or sex in mixed company. Politeness was their currency. And why antagonize people or create ill will over private matters? Fast-forward to 2023, and their advice seems...
We Need Truth and Beauty
by Jeff Deist | Oct 12, 2022 | Featured Articles
[The following is excerpted from remarks made at the Arizona Biltmore hotel this past weekend during the 2022 Mises Institute Supporters Summit] The architect Frank Lloyd Wright played an important role in the design of this beautiful desert resort. I’m sure I’m not...
Five Keys to Professional and Personal Development
by Jeff Deist | Sep 20, 2022 | Featured Articles
This talk was delivered on Friday, September 2, 2022, to the Ron Paul Scholars Seminar in northern Virginia. The remarks I’ve prepared today relate to your personal and professional development, which are of course closely interrelated. This is not to be confused with...
Inflation: State-Sponsored Terrorism
by Jeff Deist | Sep 7, 2022 | Featured Articles
This talk was delivered on Saturday, September 3, 2022, at the Ron Paul Institute conference in northern Virginia. I. IntroductionRemember the quaint old days of 2019? We were told the US economy was in great shape. Inflation was low, jobs were plentiful, GDP was...
We Don't Believe You
by Jeff Deist | Aug 12, 2022 | Featured Articles
David French, maybe National Review’s most reliably wrong scribe, issued this gem in response to the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s residence in Florida: Given that we still haven't seen the warrant, much less the warrant application, the immediate frenzied anger at the...
The Language Vandals
by Jeff Deist | Jul 20, 2022 | Featured Articles
Language is a critical tool for communication among humans; we cry "watch out" when a speeding car hurtles toward a pedestrian. We also think of language as a cognitive tool for society at large, since all human learning is closely tied to how we learn and process...
Why Social Issues Dominate
by Jeff Deist | May 4, 2022 | Featured Articles
Inflation in the US is at forty-year highs, while interest rates on ten-year Treasury notes just hit 3 percent—signaling trouble for home buyers. Truck drivers pay more than $1,000 to fill their rigs with $5 per gallon diesel to deliver your increasingly expensive...
Inflation, Quick and Dirty
by Jeff Deist | Apr 25, 2022 | Featured Articles
All of a sudden everyone is an expert on inflation. Your brother-in-law, your local paper, and even dilettantes at dubious outlets like the Washington Post or The Atlantic feel compelled to explain our current predicament. With the admitted rate of consumer inflation...
The Wrong Elites
by Jeff Deist | Apr 7, 2022 | Featured Articles
"To mount an effective response to the reigning egalitarianism of our age, therefore, it is necessary but scarcely sufficient to demonstrate the absurdity, the anti-scientific nature, the self-contradictory nature, of the egalitarian doctrine, as well as the...
Rothbard on Today's Progressive War Jingoism
by Jeff Deist | Mar 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
Readers of Murray Rothbard's articles and speeches on war collectivism will immediately recognize the progressive pietist fervor surrounding today's progressive war jingoism: everywhere is Ukraine! The atavistic need to analogize today's situation to 1938, with...
Biden’s Cuban Missile Crisis
by Jeff Deist | Feb 25, 2022 | Neocon Watch
Joe Biden's perverse legacy, if that term even applies anymore, may well be determined in the coming weeks by his handling of events in Ukraine. He can improve it by showing restraint against the relentless neoconservative chorus. One wonders what the results of...
Unmask America
by Jeff Deist | Jan 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
Enough is enough. It is time to stop wearing masks, or at the very least to eliminate mask mandates in all settings. This is especially urgent for children in schools and universities, who suffer the effects of masks for long hours each day despite being at...
How We Will Win
by Jeff Deist | Jan 1, 2022 | Featured Articles
You do not defend a world that is already lost. When was it lost? That you cannot say precisely. It is a point for the revolutionary historian to ponder. We know only that it was surrendered peacefully, without a struggle, almost unawares. There was no day, no hour,...
The Terrible Economic Ignorance behind Covid Tradeoffs: My Speech to the Ron Paul Institute
by Jeff Deist | Sep 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
Some of you may know the name Alex Berenson, the former New York Times journalist who comes from a left-liberal background. He has been absolutely fearless and tireless on Twitter over the past eighteen months, documenting the overreach and folly of covid policy—and...
What Biden/Harris Will Do
by Jeff Deist | Jan 21, 2021 | Featured Articles
Paraphrasing the late Murray Rothbard, the "two party" system in America during the twentieth century worked something like this: Democrats engineered the Great Leaps Forward, and Republicans consolidated the gains. Wilson, Roosevelt, and Johnson were the...
2021: Welcome to Post-Persuasion America
by Jeff Deist | Jan 3, 2021 | Featured Articles
I first heard this term used by Steve Bannon, architect of the surprising 2016 Trump campaign, in a PBS Frontline documentary titled "America's Great Divide." Speaking way back in the pre-Covid days of early 2020, Bannon asserted the information age makes us less...
The Absurdity of Covid 'Cases'
by Jeff Deist | Oct 3, 2020 | Featured Articles
Yesterday's headlines announced Donald and Melania Trump "tested positive" for covid-19. Another claims nineteen thousand Amazon workers "got" covid-19 on the job. Both of these pseudostories are sure to ignite another absurd media frenzy. As always, the story keeps...
Ron Paul Remains Unstoppable
by Jeff Deist | Sep 30, 2020 | Featured Articles
When Dr. Ron Paul suffered a health scare during his live Liberty Report show last Friday, I was perhaps less worried than most of his friends, family, and fans. His remarkable vitality, vigor, and energy are well known to those around him, along with his penchant for...
The CDC Is America's New Landlord
by Jeff Deist | Sep 2, 2020 | Featured Articles
This is astonishing, even by 2020 standards. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, operating under the US Department of Health and Human Services, has asserted jurisdiction over private residential leases nationwide. It intends to curtail evictions until at...
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