Robert Murphy reviews the IPCC cost estimates for climate change mitigation policies. I contend that Murphy might even have underestimated the expected mitigation costs projected by the IPCC, which are based on cost-effective scenarios.
State-formation & Violence After Medieval Times
Contra the Hobbesian theory of state coercion as the source of current-day peace, I analyze a variety of historical research offering a more complex view of state-formation and violence since the middle-ages.
A Review of the Cost of Bernie Sanders’ Healthcare Plan: Jacobin Magazine Criticized
According to Jacobin Magazine’s Matt Bruenig, even libertarian institutes grudgingly admit that a single-payer healthcare system would save trillions of dollars over a 10-year period. I contend that this is based on a severely faulty analysis of the working paper cited in his article, which actually presents the figure as an unrealistic lower-bound estimate subject to much criticism.
Illegal Immigration and Crime: A Response to Cato and Politifact
Contemporary political discourse in Western nations more often than not revolves around news-cycles and breathtaking events. Not exempt from this…
Assault-Weapon Bans & Low-Quality Guns: Reviewing the Current State of Research on Firearm Laws’ Effectiveness, Part 4
Continuous (social) media coverage of the perceived higher mass shootings rate in the U.S. compared to European nations persists after…
Canadian Gun-Control: Reviewing the Current State of Research on Firearm Laws’ Effectiveness, Part 3
Continuous (social) media coverage of the perceived higher mass shootings rate in the U.S. compared to European nations persists after…
Background Checks & Mandatory Waiting Times: Reviewing the Current State of Research on Firearm Laws’ Effectiveness, Part 2
Continuous (social) media coverage of the perceived higher mass shootings rate in the U.S. compared to European nations persists after…
Tim Wise and the “Model Minority Myth” Myth
Today’s political environment is one where the concept of “Social Justice” has become so ingrained in many people’s minds as…
Dutch Pillarization and Local Sovereignty
The Dutch system of “Pillarization” divided the Netherlands according to belief system, but united all but the classical liberals in the belief that sovereignty belongs to one’s own circle rather than a centralized state. The philosophy on which pillarization is based illumminates a possibly preferable alternative to our current descent into centralization; (inter)nationalism, and grievance-based identity politics.
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