Election 2020 is the same as every other election, only the state’s mask of legitimacy is slipping. 

Pollsters, many of whom predicted an overwhelming "blue wave," obviously failed miserably as reliable gauges of political sentiment. But prediction markets may offer an alternative.

The cynical voter casts a vote with the belief that it might improve his situation, or at least throw some obstacles in front of a regime that is bent on inflicting ever greater damage on the voters.

Even if he loses, Donald Trump still has time to change military policy, pardon allies, unseat the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and throw a wrench in the deep state apparatus.

Innovation has often been characterized as presenting the entrepreneur with an unmanageable level of uncertainty. Curt Carlson challenges this idea.

The 2020 election results will be a test of earlier liberal/progressive “investments” in modifying how Americans think about things. But at this point, perhaps more important will be whether, after the fact, people recognize how much they have been manipulated.

The new "right to repair" measure on the ballot in Massachusetts has very little to do with rights, and a lot to do with new costly and bureaucratic mandates on automakers. 

Romanticizing the history of nonwhites to portray them as saints is dehumanizing.

​Presented at the Symposium with Ron Paul on Saturday, 7 November 2020, in Angleton, Texas.

Ideas have consequences, and unless we spread the ideas of freedom and free markets first, no election or politician will bring about the changes we want.