Covid19

P. Gardner Goldsmith | May 12, 2020
A confrontation outside a Fresno, CA, Waffle Shop last Sunday is becoming the latest sensational lesson in the upside-down ethics of COVID-19…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | May 11, 2020
Is virtue-signaling a pastime for people who find themselves unable to find something constructive to do? That sure seems to be the case when…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | May 11, 2020
We begin this “wish it were satire” story with that oft-spouted, leftist “rebuttal” to liberty-minded people who oppose taxation: “But, who’ll…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | May 6, 2020
(UPDATE: Late in the afternoon on May 6, FoxNews reports that on the urging of Texas Governor Abbott, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | May 4, 2020
As the pop media continually prattle about an invisible viral enemy the threat of which is impossible to pin-down because CDC infection numbers have…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | April 30, 2020
As the days of “America Held Hostage” roll on, as many state governors and mayors issue business closure orders – and the economy tanks - the…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | April 29, 2020
The pages of the The Atlantic are often full of idiocy, but this clownish outing might take the proverbial cake. In a stuffy, artery-hardening,…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | April 28, 2020
  Among his many important and timeless observations, one of 19th Century economist and political philosopher Frederic Bastiat’s best is, “The…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | April 27, 2020
Never underestimate the capacity of collectivists of every stripe to insult people. After all, they have no problem attacking individual rights…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | April 24, 2020
One of my first articles on economics and ethics to be published appeared in the Foundation for Economic Education’s magazine, “The Freeman," was…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | April 23, 2020
Well, well! Just as Michigan’s charming Governor Gretchen Whitmer flipped from her self-righteous anti-hydroxychloroquine stance to one demanding…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | April 22, 2020
Here are a few questions… First, is there any kind of so-called, government-labeled “emergency” for which politicians WON’T claim even more power?…