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August 3, 2025

Inside Guatemala’s Libertarian University

This is a chapter from The Latin America Red Pill (2024) by Fergus Hodgson. An audio version, as of July 2025, is available via Audible and the Impunity Observer.

Note: this account comes from 2017–2018, but I am writing it in 2024. I had a Poets & Quants interview in 2019 about the case, so I am somewhat drawing on that.

After moving on from the PanAm Post in 2016, I debated what to do next with my life. In particular, I wanted to go beyond journalism and add more practical value. Since I loved...

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Published on August 03, 2025 21:01

Mises University 2025

I’d like to begin by telling you something about how I founded the Mises Institute in 1982 and what we are trying to accomplish. Thirty-five years ago, when I was contemplating the creation of a Ludwig von Mises Institute, the Austrian School of economics, and its Misesian branch in particular, were very much in decline. The number of Misesian economists was so small that all of them knew each other personally and could probably have fit in Mises’s small living room. This is a world that young p...

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Published on August 03, 2025 21:01

August 2, 2025

Stay Out of the Hospital

Chris Sullivan wrote:

This was as predictable as night following day. As long as some agent has a pecuniary interest in “health decisions” it’s going to decide for itself. Back around 1982 I told a friend of mine that when we got old they would just kill people when they got old because Social Security was going to have more people in the cart than pulling the cart. He told me “You’re crazy, that will never happen.”  When government or an insurance company is making life and death decisions abou...

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Published on August 02, 2025 10:01

August 1, 2025

Hypocrisy Thy Name Is Trump

In some ways it is refreshing to have a president who is so profoundly ignorant that one’s expectations regarding what good policies might actually come out of the federal government are really, really low. It took Donald Trump six months to accept the reality of the slaughter going on in Gaza where Israel is killing roughly one hundred Palestinians every day whose only crime is that they are looking for food, water and shelter. Admittedly Trump has actually been bold enough to challenge his Isr...

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Published on August 01, 2025 21:01

The Life Source Missing From Today’s Narratives

In 1761 lawyer James Otis delivered a five-hour speech in a packed Boston courthouse in which he dismantled Parliament’s claim that general search warrants known as writs-of-assistance were constitutionally valid.  Though Otis lost the case his scholarly and fiery rhetoric won the support of onlookers such as 25-year-old John Adams, who near the end of his life wrote about his experience:

Every Man of an immense crowded Audience appeared to me to go away, as I did, ready to take Arms against Wri...

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Published on August 01, 2025 21:01

Israel, Listen to Rabbi Berger

‘Judaism is to do justice and to have mercy and to walk humbly with God; and all the rest is commentary and of secondary importance’.

So wrote Rabbi Elmer Berger, a leading Jewish thinker of the 50’s and 60’s, who opposed what he called Israeli-style ‘Jewish nationalism.’

Another renowned Jewish thinker, Arthur Koestler, warned that Israel was becoming ‘a nasty little Sparta.’

This past week, much of the rest of the world, sickened by the mass slaughter and destruction in Gaza wrought by Israel,...

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Published on August 01, 2025 21:01

What Can The Smallpox Vaccines Teach Us About COVID Vax Injuries?

When you study history, it’s always striking how frequently dysfunctional cycles tend to repeat themselves—which is why many of us were able to foresee much of what came to pass with the disastrous COVID-19 vaccines. Medicine has its fair share of erroneous beliefs (which frequently have little to no evidence supporting them). Sadly, my profession has held tightly onto them for centuries regardless of the problems those beliefs create and I believe the vaccination meme is one of the most harmful...

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Published on August 01, 2025 21:01

From Militant Saints to Modernist Wolves

Today marks the feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola—soldier, mystic, founder of the Society of Jesus. Once, this name commanded respect from Catholics worldwide. Today, it often evokes embarrassment among the faithful who witness some of his spiritual sons betraying everything he fought to defend.

Yet, Ignatius was a warrior—literally. A cannonball shattered his leg at Pamplona, thus transforming a worldly knight into Christ’s most disciplined general.

His Jesuits were the face of the Church Militan...

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Published on August 01, 2025 21:01

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