Even despotism does not produce its worst effects so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it be called. –John Stuart Mill, On Liberty [1869]
HORNBERGER’S BLOG
August 31, 2023 The Cancer Within
Imagine that your doctor finds a huge cancerous tumor on your colon, which has produced a few smaller tumors in the rest of your body. The doctor removes the smaller tumors but leaves the big one alone. A few months later, the doctor finds a few more tumors on other parts of your body, which he then removes. Every few months, the same …
Macaulay and My 75-Cent Epiphanies, Part 1
by James Bovard
Fearing that my writing style was becoming anemic, I recently sought a literary booster shot from my bookshelves. Happily, a dozen volumes of Thomas …
The Tragedy in Hawaii
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the role of government in emergencies and crises, …
“Tax Expenditures” Is a Misnomer
by Laurence M. Vance
The April 18 deadline for Americans to file their 2022 income tax returns had hardly passed before House Republicans began to talk about reviving …