Michael Dahlen's Articles
Economics, Politics & Rights
How Jamie Dimon Should Have Answered Representative Katie Porter
Michael Dahlen April 17, 2019
Businessmen must learn to defend themselves when they are unjustly attacked, as should anyone concerned with justice.
History, Politics & Rights, Reviews, Science & Technology
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking by Saifedean Ammous
Michael Dahlen October 25, 2018
Ammous places Bitcoin in a broad historical context and makes a good case that it has the potential to be the next stage in the evolution of sound money.
Economics, Reviews
The Internet of Money, by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Michael Dahlen November 25, 2017
Michael Dahlen reviews The Internet of Money, by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Politics & Rights, Reviews
Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets, by Peter Schweizer
Michael Dahlen February 21, 2017
Michael Dahlen reviews Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets, by Peter Schweizer.
History, Philosophy
The Roots of Capitalism and Statism in the West
Michael Dahlen August 14, 2016
Surveys the history of political freedom and force, from the dawn of reason in ancient Greece to the Dark Ages, the Renaissance, and so on, up to today.
Economics, Reviews
Review: The Real Crash, by Peter D. Schiff
Michael Dahlen August 20, 2013
Michael Dahlen reviews The Real Crash: America’s Coming Bankruptcy—How to Save Yourself and Your Country, by Peter D. Schiff.
History
The British Industrial Revolution: A Tribute to Freedom and Human Potential
Michael Dahlen August 20, 2010
Surveys the essential history of the British Industrial Revolution, showing that what made this period so remarkably productive was its substantial economic freedom, which unleashed countless industrious minds to solve problems of human survival and prosperity.
Philosophy
Letters and Replies, Winter 2009–2010
Craig Biddle answers a letter regarding “the status of the choice to live.”
History
The Rise of American Big Government: A Brief History of How We Got Here
Michael Dahlen August 20, 2009
Focuses on the historical details of how American government, fueled by altruism, has become the rights-violating, economy-wrecking behemoth it is today.