Donald J. Boudreaux www.aier.org Donald J. Boudreaux is a senior fellow with American Institute for Economic Research and with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University; a Mercatus Center Board Member; and a professor
John Tamny aier.org John Tamny, research fellow of AIER, is editor of RealClearMarkets. His book on current ideological trends is: They Are Both Wrong (AIER, 2019) What better way to begin a review of what is an excellent book than to say that the book’s author always knew.
Zilvinas Silenas fee.org Zilvinas Silenas became President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in May 2019. He served from 2011-2019 as the President of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI), bringing the organization and its free-market policy reform message to the forefront of Lithuanian public discourse.
Chris Sellars I pre-empted the November issue of Time magazine with an article titled. “The Great Global Reset“. World Economic Forum chairman Klaus Schwab’s recently published book is titled. ‘Covid 19 The Great Reset’. The concept of a worldwide takeover and one overarching world government goes back to
What’s a billion or so between amicis, eh? As previously reported by The BFD, startling revelations late last year showed that millions of dollars were secretly transferred to a company in Melbourne. The money was alleged to have been used to help secure the false conviction of Cardinal George
Joe Biden’s not in the White House yet, but already America’s enemies are jostling to take advantage of what they clearly see as a more easily-bullied new administration. In 2016, Iran tested then-president Obama’s mettle when it seized two US Navy boats and their crews.
The one constant in the year and more of the Wuhan plague is: China lied. It’s still lying. Whatever China is hiding about the origins of the Wuhan plague, it has and is doing everything within its power to cover it up. From the very beginning, doctors and scientists
In international relations terms, Australia is strictly what would be called a “middle power”. We’re not among the elite movers and shakers of world events, but we are far from irrelevant. In recent months, Australia has upped its ante from being a middle power to being what is called
A curious thing happened last week: China’s “wolf warriors” suddenly began to sit up and beg. “We hope that the relationship can come back to the right track as early as possible, and we would welcome efforts by all who want the relations to improve to make some efforts,
“Pathological altruism”, a phrase popularised by the book of the same name, refers to altruism that is taken to an unhealthy extreme, such that either it harms the altruistic person, or their well-intentioned actions cause more harm than good. As the famous proverb puts it, the road to hell
Although the hapless Neville Chamberlain has borne the historical burden of the disastrous appeasement policy prior to WWII, the reality is that it was an enormously popular policy on nearly all sides. Cheering crowds greeted Chamberlain’s “piece of paper”. Even after the war began, many left-wing groups in
Viv Forbes Washpool Qld, Australia The Green Virus is on a rising curve in the Anglo-Sphere. Boris, Biden, Kerry, Trudeau, Arden and Australia’s Morrison are all competing to be the first to destroy all industries reliant on coal, cattle, petrol and diesel. Hydrogen, solar, wind, pumped hydro, bio-
Duggan Flanakin cfact.org Duggan Flanakin is the Director of Policy Research at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas.
IINZ israelinstitute.nz Many things changed in 2020 all around the world. However, the disproportionate attack on Israel at the United Nations continued. There were 17 resolutions passed by the General Assembly that singled out the Jewish state, while only 8 other countries were mentioned in 7 other resolutions. Those
It’s shaping up as the biggest communist spy scandal since the Cambridge Five or the communist infiltrations of Hollywood and the US political bureaucracy in the 1930s and 1940s. When academic Clive Hamilton published Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia he was immediately attacked by China sympathisers in
