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The COVID Reckoning Doesn't Go Far Enough

Real medical freedom will require something greater than replacing the public health establishment: ending the FDA's monopoly.

Reason

Kevin Warsh: Trump’s ideal choice to push Fed to cut interest rates

Former Wall Street banker faces questions at confirmation hearing – but his biggest backer is also his biggest liability

The Guardian - US

60% of Americans Agree Taxes Are Too High. Here Are 4 Other Reasons To Hate the Tax System.

A noncomprehensive list

Reason

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The Guardian view on Adam Smith: he deserves rescuing from the free-market myth

Editorial: On the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations, the Scottish philospher is still invoked by the right. Yet he worried about inequality, monopoly and the power of wealth

The Guardian - UK

100 Years of Murray Rothbard

Remembering America's most radical and definitive modern libertarian intellectual.

Reason

It's the Spending, Stupid!

The truest measure of government in our lives is the federal budget, which is out of control.

Reason

New Fed report shows Biden's immigration policies top Trump's on economic growth

A new research paper found that the huge influx of foreigners under President Biden's open border policy had the beneficial role of increasing the labor force, especially in areas where the U.S. sorely needed workers.

Fortune

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Get your Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand right: Zomato and Blinkit aren’t capitalism

Late last week, I wrote a piece responding to Deepinder Goyal’s tweets on how he views India’s gig economy. It went viral – and as is inevitable with anything that does, it brought with it an equal measure of bouquets and brickbats.

Newslaundry

Why OpenAI is a prime example of the ethical limits of capitalism

As OpenAI marks its tenth birthday in December 2025, it can celebrate becoming one of the world’s leading companies, worth perhaps as much as US$1 trillion (£750 billion). But it started as a non-profit with a serious moral mission – and its story demonstrates the difficulty of combining morality with…

The Conversation

Why I Support Reason with a Tax-Deductible Donation (and You Should Too!)

The magazine of free minds and free markets has changed millions of minds—including mine—to take freedom seriously.

Reason

A conversation that never took off: When Nikhil Kamath’s nervous schoolboy energy met Elon Musk

Among internet personalities who speak too much, Elon Musk occupies a special place. The entire world ( including many Indians) know his views on free speech, wokism, on rockets, on civilisation, on Trump and on the people he is fighting on X with this week. Which is why an Indian…

Newslaundry

Abolish Property Taxes?

Florida Republicans propose not one, not two, but seven different constitutional amendments to cap, cut, or even eliminate property taxes.

Reason

New York City Is About To Elect a Socialist Mayor in Zohran Mamdani. Why Won't This Failed Ideology Die?

The troubling rise of Zohran Mamdani is about more than policy. It's about culture.

Reason

Seasteading is making a comeback — but these utopian paradises on the high seas have a history of failure

IN FOCUS: They promised utopian paradises, unshackled by governments and buoyed by tech. What they built instead was a costly illusion. Holly Baxter reports on how seasteading started, unraveled and is now rising again in popularity

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Is MAGA going Marxist and Maoist? Trump's assault on free-market capitalism

Many business leaders are horrified at the prospect of New York City turning socialist under Zohran Mamdani, but Trump's assaults on free-market capitalism make him look like John D. Rockefeller.

The Conversation

How the neoliberalism of ‘Hayek’s Bastards’ changed the world – and fuelled the rise of the populist right

Neoliberalism has had an enormous influence on the world, driving policy and governance at the national and international level, particularly since the 1980s, when it was championed by the Reagan administration in the United States and the Thatcher government in the United Kingdom.

Reason

Milton Friedman Disproved Trump's Argument for Tariffs Decades Ago

In a 1978 appearance at Utah State University, the Nobel Prize–winning economist provided the perfect retort to those who blindly argue we should "build in America."

The Independent UK

Inside the city where people are choosing pampered pets over children

The rising passion for dogs has coincided with falling human fertility

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International Business Times

Trump Admin Cancels $5.1B Pentagon IT Contracts With Accenture, Deloitte

According to a memo shared on Thursday, Hegseth described the spending on outside consultants as unnecessary. "These terminations represent $5.1 billion in wasteful spending ... and nearly $4 billion in estimated savings."

Reason

Milton Friedman's Warning to DOGE

The Nobel Prize-winning economist says the Iron Triangle of Politics must be defeated to cut down the government for good.

Reason

All Trade is Reciprocal. Trump's Tariffs Interfere With That Reciprocity.

Governments should just get out of the way of free trade among consumers and businesses.

Fortune

‘Corporate social responsibility’ is a flawed concept. What we really need is ‘corporate accountability’

Just as children outgrow their focused self-interest, corporate accountability means challenging companies to come of age.

Reason

How Would Milton Friedman Do DOGE?

If the Department of Government Efficiency goes about this the wrong way, we could be left with both a presidency on steroids and no meaningful reduction in government.

Reason

RIP to Government Acronyms

One perk that may materialize from Elon Musk upending the federal bureaucracy is the downfall of the government’s obsessive use of abbreviations.

The Conversation

The Trump revolution: where it came from and where it’s going

As Donald Trump prepares for his inauguration, the world is preparing for the beginning of the second Trump Revolution. Trump’s second term will be very different from his first, when his powers were more limited and restrained. In 2016 he did not win a majority of the popular vote.

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