by Richard W. Rahn | Jun 22, 2020
You are watching a football game, and at the first play after halftime, players on the losing team pepper-spray players of the other team, incapacitating them. All would be outraged because of the unfair and deplorable conduct. Everyone understands that whether it is...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jun 15, 2020
“Barbarians” are groups of people who engage in wanton destruction of civilized places and institutions. Barbarians are driven by a desire for others’ material goods, through theft (looting), and for power. Barbarism has a history as long as civilization. The Roman...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jun 9, 2020
Politicians, when they are running for office, claim they love and support small businesses — but many of them lie. Over the last three months, the political class has waged an intense war against those people who have risked their savings and countless time and...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jun 2, 2020
Most economists agree that borrowing to cover current operating costs of government and involuntary transfer payments are harmful because, in part, it puts an obligation in the form of higher taxes on future generations many of whom are unborn. But there is much...
by Richard W. Rahn | May 26, 2020
Good news (please see the accompanying table)! If you are under 65, in reasonably good health and do not have a vitamin D deficiency, you have only a tiny chance of dying from COVID-19. And if you are younger than 34, your chances of dying from the virus are so small...