If you are an American, have you asked yourself these questions?1. What purpose of mine is served by the US government’s making war in Iraq?2. What purpose of mine is served by the US government’s making war in Afghanistan?3. What purpose of mine is served by the US...
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One Nation . . . Indivisible?
by Robert Higgs | Jun 27, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As a child in government schools, I must have recited the pledge of allegiance thousands of times. And not once did it occur to me that the “one nation . . . indivisible” part of it is simply an embrace of the Lincolnian heresy, a preemptive attack on the potential...
State Governments Are Becoming the Biggest Drug Lords of All
by Robert Higgs | Apr 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
The so-called war on drugs—actually a war on certain people associated in various ways with certain drugs — has served since the Nixon administration as a major profit center for governments at every level. Owing to the ostensible efforts to suppress the possession,...
Is a National Government Necessary for National Defense?
by Robert Higgs | Mar 24, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Gordon Tullock used to taunt anarchists by asserting that if the USA abolished its government, people would not have to worry about the Russians taking over the country because “the Mexicans would get here first.”This little story actually incorporates a common...
A Sandy Beach and Constitutional Political Economy
by Robert Higgs | Oct 8, 2016 | Featured Articles
I normally walk my dogs twice each day along the beach, which gives me an opportunity to ponder, among other things, issues in constitutional political economy. My late friend James Buchanan, one of the deepest thinkers in political economy during the past century,...
Against the Feel-Good Study of History and Literature
by Robert Higgs | May 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
The educational establishment seems to be expending a great deal of effort these days to excise “offensive” material from the curricula of history and literature. For example, Mark Twain’s great anti-racist novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been removed...
Can the State Enforce Virtuous Behavior?
by Robert Higgs | Mar 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
For thousands of years, states (or equivalent ruling organizations and elites) certainly have acted as if they could enforce virtuous behavior—always of course according to the particular conception of virtue they happened to cherish. And many continue to do so today....
Sometimes the Only Thing to Do is Nothing
by Robert Higgs | Dec 8, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When libertarians (or simply people with common sense) argue against proposals to solve a certain class of perceived problems (e.g., mass murders by odd-ball lunatics or crazed zealots) by imposing more stringent government controls, closer surveillance, and so forth,...
Total National Security Spending Is Much Greater than the Pentagon’s Base Budget
by Robert Higgs | Jan 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
click to enlargeIn a recent publication of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, “Defense Spending Extends Beyond the Pentagon’s Budget,” Veronique de Rugy presents a valuable compilation of data for fiscal year 2013, showing how much of the government’s...
The US Government Makes a Mockery of the Principal-Agent Relationship
by Robert Higgs | Feb 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
The philosophical and legal foundation of the US government (and some other governments) is that government officials are the agents of the citizens—in the familiar phrase, those who govern have the “consent of the governed.” An agent, of course, is someone I...
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