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A most revealing chart on health costs
In this Freeman piece by Max Borders, you see a most revealing chart. It shows how, over the last 40 years, the number of health care administrators has grown far,…
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If it weren’t for government, people wouldn’t become educated
That is among the many erroneous notions that props up statism. In today’s FEE piece, Max Borders slays it. We had effective schools long before the state got involved. When…
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Another cliche of progressivism
In this Freeman piece, Max Borders takes on another cliche of progressivism — that because resources are scarce, government must step in to manage them.
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Cliches of Progressivism
Max Borders begins the (potentially endless) series of articles on the cliches of progressivism with this one, on the supposed need for the state to solve the problem of inequality.
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Countering illogical objections to libertarianism
On FEE’s site today, Max Borders has a superlative piece in which has compiled a list with 30 of the common, illogical argumentative objections to libertarianism. If you sometimes get…
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Do Americans want more wealth redistribution?
A video claims to prove they do, but in today’s Freeman piece, Max Borders disputes that idea. There is something fundamentally wrong in basing coercive policies on what most people…
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Why the “progressives” are unleashing hatchet job attacks on libertarianism
There has been a spike in hostile, intellectually dishonest hit jobs by “progressives” on libertarianism lately. In today’s Freeman piece, Max Borders looks at the reasons why. I’d boil it…
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Borders identifies some of the goofiest arguments from the left
Writing for The Freeman, Max Borders lists 30 common fallacies used in “arguments” against libertarian ideas. Most libertarians find they’re arguing in social media these days. So they’re not only…
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What if government didn’t fund research?
Advocates of government “investment” in R&D argue that we’re much better off because of it, but in his Freeman article today, Max Borders makes the case that they’re wrong.
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Max Borders on Obamacare
In his latest column for The Freeman, Max Borders compares the regulators who have given us Obamacare to Ptolemaic astronomers. Intrigued? Read the piece. Obamacare is putting the nation through…
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How to escape the omnipotent state
Washington is engaged in a furious battle over another massive grab for power by the authoritarians who are mostly in control of the government, so this Freeman piece by Max…
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“Children belong to the community”
In his Freeman piece today, Max Borders attacks that collectivist, authoritarian idea most recently proclaimed by an MSNBC personality.