A Book and a Message that Can Save the World
The word over time became corrupted, and still is to a great extent, by people who try to enlist their pet cause in the idea. But nothing can take away that great first principle...
- Aug 21, 2019More Articles
Existing-Home Sales Continue Recovery in July
Sales of existing homes rose 2.5 percent in July to a 5.42 million seasonally adjusted annual rate. Sales are up just 0.6 percent from a year ago but remain 3.9 percent below the recent...
- Aug 21, 2019
Tariff Threats Yield Money for Nothing for Government
President Trump’s recently announced expansion of tariffs on Chinese goods, along with the later revision specifying implementation dates and which goods will be covered, brings to mind...
- Aug 21, 2019
Slavery Did Not Make America Richer
Slaves sitting near their cabins on a Port Royal, South Carolina plantation after the arrival of Union forces in late 1861.
Timothy O'Sullivan, photographed the slaves in April 1862.
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The Best Lack Conviction; The Worst Have Passionate Intensity
Human beings have contradictory impulses. On the one hand, we want to be “free”; on the other, we want to be led, and by a powerful and charismatic leader. Howard Nemerov put it puckishly...
- Aug 20, 2019
The Way Not to Fix Education, Housing, and Health Care
As long as the reality of human existence remains on the imperfect side of paradise — mired in scarcity, often unpredictable, and always carrying at least a small risk of calamity for...
- Aug 20, 2019
How Capitalist-Abolitionists Fought Slavery
Running afoul of slave-owning political interests almost destroyed brothers Lewis and Arthur Tappan, the wealthy owners of a prominent New York mercantile import business. On July 9, 1834...
- Aug 19, 2019
Massachusetts’ Addiction to Regulation Keeps Most Pot Sales on the Black Market
Since Massachusetts residents passed a 2016 referendum legalizing recreational cannabis, the fate of the industry has largely been in the hands of the state’s Cannabis Control Commission...
- Aug 19, 2019
Coercion in Government Employment
Immediately after the Supreme Court’s Janus decision last June, which released government employees from the duress of paying forced union dues, union leaders began loudly to lament that...
- Aug 19, 2019
George S. Schuyler, Anti-Racist Champion of Liberty
One of the most difficult subjects to discuss in America today is race. It is the proverbial “third rail,” which, if talked about outside of the politically correct corridor of “identity...
- Aug 19, 2019
Economics Science Had Late-Scholastic Origins (Podcast)
Economics as a science began to take shape in the late Middle Ages as theologians began to come to terms with laws operating within the material world to enhance human well being.
In...
- Aug 18, 2019
An Answer to the Pope, a Leader of Libertarianism’s Critics
Earlier this year, Pope Francis again blasted capitalism as “a fallacious economic model that has been followed for too long.” It is “profit-oriented, shortsighted, and based on the...
- Aug 18, 2019
Rothbard’s First Impressions on Free Banking in Scotland Were Correct
In the late 1980s, a fascinating debate broke out over free banking. Economist Murray Rothbard (1926-1995) wrote in a journal of his editorship a blasting critique of a seminal work on...
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