In North Korea, Black Markets Are Saving Lives
Black Markets Are Saving Lives North Korea could, arguably, be considered the nation-state equivalent of a time-capsule; a society perpetually […]
Business & Economics
Millennials Really Dig Bitcoin
Millennials Really Dig Bitcoin It’s become fashionable to malign millennials for killing everything from dinner dates to department stores. If […]
Education Is the State’s Greatest Tool for Propaganda
Education Is the State’s Greatest Tool for Propaganda In chapter 10 of The Road to Serfdom, Hayek describes how some […]
Fake News Is Still Free Speech
Fake News Free speech is one of the most settled principles of law and public policy, or so you might […]
Why Populists Love Big Government
Populists Love Big Government The rise of populist critique of the status quo in our time has multiple reasons – […]
Steve Bannon’s Populism Would Impoverish Working People
Populism I listened intently to the New York Times‘s interview with Steve Bannon, the nationalist man of mystery who might […]
Resolved: The Welfare State Should Be Abolished
Welfare State I was honored to be the guest speaker of the Yale University Political Union last week, addressing the […]
The Feds Should Leave Gambling Policy to the States
Gambling Policy In late 2011, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a memo in response to a federal court ruling […]
Free the Farms, Feed the Poor
Free the Farms, Feed the Poor When informed that the already starving French had run out of bread, Marie Antoinette […]
What Hayek Gets Wrong about a Universal Basic Income
Universal Basic Income Market advocates usually tend to reject any sort of system that seeks to rob from one individual […]
Economic Freedom by the Numbers
Economic Freedom By The Numbers Economic Freedom By The Numbers by Prof. Antony Davies: What’s the evidence that economic freedom […]
A Revolution to Always Remember but Never Celebrate
Revolution to Always Remember The propaganda of the old Soviet Union referred to it for decades as the “Great October […]
Human Action
Human Action For more than a century, the world has been caught in the grip of social engineers and political […]
Cognitive Biases Afflict Government ‘Nudgers’ Too
Nudgers Economist Richard Thaler recently won the 2017 Nobel Prize in economics for his important work documenting widespread cognitive errors in […]
In Bitcoin We Trust
In Bitcoin We Trust The timing could not have been more propitious for Liberty Fund’s conference on cryptocurrency this past […]
Public Schools Were Designed to Indoctrinate Immigrants
Public Schools Humans tend to romanticize the past. In many ways, it helps us see the good in what has […]