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Technology 6 min read

Wired Magazine Lionized Tom Paine

By Jeffery J. Smith
Society 3 min read

Restructuring the Police

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 4 min read

Land In Thomas Paine’s Lifetime

By Jeffery J. Smith
Economics 7 min read

Five Stages of the Georgist Movement

By Rick DiMare
Society 2 min read

A Modern Georgist Democratic Platform

By Rick DiMare
Economics 3 min read

Rent Control: A Case Study

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economics 3 min read

“Constitutional Economics”

By Rick DiMare
Economics 4 min read

The 125-Year Conspiracy

By Rick DiMare
Society 2 min read

Vote and Demand Paper

By Lindy Davies
Society 9 min read

The 1890 Georgist “Constitution”

By Rick DiMare
Society 2 min read

March For Our Lives Is About More Than Gun Control

By Lawrence Bosek
Economics 5 min read

About Interest

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 4 min read

What is a Governmental Intervention?

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 2 min read

Declare Peace on North Korea!

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

Is the US Election Rigged?

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 5 min read

Make the Deep-Data-Depositors De-classify

By Jeffery J. Smith
Society 3 min read

Eliminate Electronic Voting

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economics 4 min read

The Blessings of Cash

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economics 3 min read

Another Job Killer: Section 385

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

U.S. Government Voiding the First Amendment

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economics 4 min read

American Wealth and Real Estate

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economics 9 min read

In the Belly of the Fed

By Jeffery J. Smith
Economics 4 min read

What’s the Cost of America?

By Jeffery J. Smith
Society 4 min read

Oshan Cook: A Call for Presidential Clemency

By Martin Adams
Society 3 min read

Thugs Destroy Democracy

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economics 3 min read

Michigan’s Government Failure

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

Mass Democracy and its Discontents

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 2 min read

Implied Consent

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 5 min read

American Exceptionalism

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

​The Undemocratic Ballot Access

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 4 min read

Favors for a Group or Dividends for All?

By Jeffery J. Smith
Economics 4 min read

Intervention Denial

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 1 min read

Take “The Donald” Seriously? Yes, and Here’s Why.

By Phil J. Anderson
Economics 3 min read

The Social Security Non-Multiplier

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 4 min read

Majoritarianism

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 1 min read

Everything You Suspected About U.S. Gov’t Corruption is True

By Martin Adams
Society 3 min read

The Police Versus the People

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 4 min read

A Confederation of New Canaan

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 4 min read

The Economy and Happiness of Bhutan

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

Max Weber on “Politics as a Vocation”

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

Can the U.S. Constitution Force Americans to Have Medical Insurance?

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

Negotiate to End War

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 4 min read

Is Jury Duty Involuntary Servitude?

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economics 4 min read

Government Debt — Who Will Pay?

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

Card Games Banned for Seniors

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

The Supreme Right of Self-Defense

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

Mass Democracy Fails in Iran

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economics 3 min read

Federal Government Continues Its Money Monopoly

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 4 min read

The Government's War on Teenagers

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 2 min read

A City Ordinance Against Being Annoying

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economics 4 min read

How Obama could be the Greatest President Ever

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economics 3 min read

I.O.U. an Answer

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

The Threat of an Electromagnetic Bomb

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

Creation and Confiscation of Currency

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 4 min read

Liberalism Ascending

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

How the Republican Party can be Resurrected

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 4 min read

Experience and the Presidency

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 4 min read

The Truce and the Noose

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

Should Hate Speech be Banned?

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

Tiny Democracy for Michigan and Florida

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

The Government Declares War on Buttocks

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

Pandemonium in Pakistan

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

America drifts closer to fascism

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Technology 3 min read

Design Mechanisms for Democracy, Prosperity, and Liberty

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

Abolish All Copyright!

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 4 min read

Henry Plottre and the Democratic Candidates' Search for Magic

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 4 min read

Independence for Kosovo

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

Protesting the G-8 Summit

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

Russia's North-Pole Land Grab

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

Mass Democracy Fails in Gaza

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

Killing Dolphins and Killing People

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

U.S. Judges Kill the Ninth Amendment

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

America’s Royalist Coin Set

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 2 min read

Let the Mandaeans Come In

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 4 min read

How to Make Baghdad Safe

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

War on Drugs Expands to Catnip

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

Plan C for Iraq

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

The U.S. Government's Power to Confiscate

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

U.S. Mint Seeks Monopoly

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

Government Financing of Political Campaigns

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

A New Centrist Political Party is Forming

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economics 3 min read

Montenegro Becomes Independent

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

Conditions for Peace between Israel and Palestine

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

Coping with Iran

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Society 3 min read

U.S. Government Demands Congestion Subsidy

By Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.