What Most Americans Don’t Know about Extreme Poverty
766,010,000 people. That’s how many are living in extreme poverty today, defined by the World Bank as having roughly $2/day […]
Political
Nationalism Is a Farce That Ends in Tragedy
Karl Marx famously began The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by observing that Hegel “remarks somewhere that all facts and […]
How the Government Turns Natural Disasters Into Catastrophes
Many of the most expensive flood and storm disasters in US history have occurred in recent decades. The glib response […]
Civil Asset Forfeiture Unjustly Targets the Poor
Income mobility in the United States has stagnated, a fact that hurts the poor most of all. If President Trump […]
Constitutional Ignorance Led to a Tyranny of the Majority
Constitution Day-September 17-marks the anniversary of its 1787 signing. Students will be taught about it…but not because of its importance. […]
Race Relations Are Improved by Free Markets, Not Collectivist Politics
Politically we seem to be living in trying times. The political polarization, as portrayed in the mainstream news media, appears […]
The Core of Liberty Is Economic Liberty
Since the rise during the late 1800s of socialism, New Liberalism, and Progressivism it has been conventional to scorn economic […]
Free Enterprise Is the World’s Only Successful Strategy for Reducing Poverty
In prior years, I’ve shared some videos with powerful messages with a common message. Grinding poverty used to be the […]
Professor Horwitz Explains Price Gouging In the Midst of the Storm
It takes guts to go on CNN and explain economic truth – for humanitarian reasons – in the midst of […]
Flood Subsidies Helped Harvey Do More Harm
Hurricane Harvey, which battered Texas over the past week, offers the clearest lesson why Congress should not perpetuate the federal […]
When Economists Are Enemies of Economic Growth
The great investor and writer Andy Kessler frequently points out that the failure rate among Silicon Valley start-ups is 90 […]
The Middle Class Warms to Bitcoin
Thirty-five-year-old Ryan Williams may not be able to explain the intricacies of Bitcoin or tell you how the blockchain works. […]
This Is Where Brutalism Ends
Liberty-minded people are doing a lot of soul-searching these days. It’s probably needed. In case you haven’t heard, many academic […]
12 Venn Diagrams that Show the Intellectual Inconsistency of the Left
John Venn is most known for creating and introducing the Venn diagram in 1880, which has been used in the […]
Price Gougers Actually Help Solve the Problem of Scarcity
Whenever there is a natural disaster, we see two things: the best in human generosity, courage and resilience and the […]
To Fight Cronyism, We Need a Separation of Business and State
In my 30-plus years in Washington, I’ve lived through some very bad pieces of legislation. George H.W. Bush’s betrayal of […]