Wanting Something Doesn’t Make it a Human Right
Human Right Any observer of American politics must be struck by the ever-expanding roster of things people have asserted they […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Tax Hikers Are Getting More Open about Targeting the Middle Class
Tax Hikers I’ve written several times that the left wants big tax hikes on poor and middle-class taxpayers. Simply stated, that’s the only […]
Obamacare Subsidies Are Unconstitutional
Obamacare Subsidies Last week, President Trump issued an executive order instructing the heads of Health and Human Services and the […]
Jurors Must Stand between the State and Its Victims
Jurors “Do you mean to tell me, that if there was a law against state attorneys using blue pens and […]
What Is ‘Capitalism’ Anyway?
Capitalism One of the leading ideological punching bags for well over one hundred years has been the ideas, institutions, and […]
Single-Payer Health Care Would Be Even Worse than Obamacare
Single-Payer Health Care The late, great Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman said it best: “There’s no such thing as a […]
Best Defense against Sexual Harassment Is a Free Labor Market
Sexual Harassment Lin Farley, the person who coined the phrase “sexual harassment” in 1975, is today deeply unhappy about the […]
You Can’t Vote Math Out of Office
You Can’t Vote Math Out of Office This year, Deficit Day – that is, the day the federal government runs […]
Trump Is Quietly Deregulating All the Things
Trump Is Quietly Deregulating Most people alive in America today have probably never had the experience of sending a telegram. […]