https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V6-9UHLh3I Avowed champions of venerable social justice causes often boast their love for the downtrodden and less prosperous collective groups. In pursuing such "noble" egalitarian pretenses, historical wrongs must be righted. Modern multicultural Western society has been diced up into groups and ranked by how oppressed they perceptibly are, often termed "The Progressive Stack". For… Continue reading The Bizarre Alliance Between Islam And Feminism
Universities have become a specter of what they once represented – higher learning, rational inquiry, empiricism and science. Today, universities are a bacchanalia of pseudo-science, mysticism and superstition. The meteoric rise of social justice, hailing from the New Left of the 1950s, has orchestrated a formidable cultural overhaul throughout Western universities. The free speech movement… Continue reading Professors Are Priests, SJWs The Congregation
You may think that it is out of hubris that I brazenly chide most of what is peddled in public schools and universities as fallacious. Well, economists qua economists are well aware that their services can command greater remuneration behind the aegis of the State or University tenure than on the market. Roughly 80% of… Continue reading Why Economic Fallacies Are Taught
A rather puzzling situation indeed. Why would society’s most well-to-do generally support higher income taxes, estate taxes, business regulations, Keynesianism, myriad social programs and the diminution of individual liberty? It may seem perplexing that the plutocrats opt for political candidates who are the most hostile towards capitalism. The majority of economic interventions harm the smallest… Continue reading Elitist Leftists: Why Much Of The Rich Hate Capitalism
Ask a regular Joe about time preferences and they’ll be clueless. Heck, ask anybody who isn’t initiated in Austrian Economics and you’d expect a similar response. It’s a shame that such a crucially important topic is overlooked and ignored by economists and other social scientists. One's time preference refers to how much he values future… Continue reading How “Time Preferences” Make Or Break Civilization
