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Monday, May 26, 2025
 
 
Price Controls and Drug Shortages in France: A Textbook Case of the Evils of Interventionism
Ulrich Fromy
France is facing critical shortages of a number of drugs, and one need look no further for a cause than a price control regime. Naturally, the French media and government blame capitalism and look to double down on the intervention that has causes this crisis.
 
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Relearning the Lessons We Never Learned from World War I
Jorge Besada
The 20th century gave us two world wars that have altered the world’s political landscape to this day. We would do well to remember the main lesson from World War I: there is no “honor” in warfare. It is pure murder.
 
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Student Loans: A New Sheriff in Town
 
The Department of Education is resuming student loan collections, signaling a firm stance on repayments.
 
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Biden, Bombs,
and Bonds
 
The inaugural episode of the weekly roundtable news recap with Ryan McMaken, Tho Bishop, and Connor O’Keeffe.
 
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Canada’s Wait Times for Healthcare Are Huge. Activists Blame Free Markets.
The fact a small sliver of the marketplace is allowed to charge fees for services means activists want even more socialized medicine.
 
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Hunger and War in WWI Germany: Remembering the Slaughter of Pigs
T. Hunt Tooley reviews a strange episode in WWI history—Schweinmord, the Pig Slaughter of 1915 in Germany.
 
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Bureaucracy: The Death Knell of Higher Education
Many small colleges are shutting their doors, and it is largely the fault of overexpansion, government protectionism, and bureaucratic infiltration.
 
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How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
 
Scott Horton exposes how endless wars abroad destroy liberty at home.
 
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The World at War
 
Ralph Raico offers a compelling, classical liberal perspective on the economic roots of twentieth-century conflict. Raico weaves together history and theory to illuminate the deeper causes of the world wars—insights that remain strikingly relevant in the context of ongoing debates over intervention and perpetual war.
 
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