The Strangest Thing about the Debate
The trouble with the 7 people on the stage last night is that they have little or no regard for our personal plans. It’s their plans for us that matter. Our lives are mere abstractions to them.
READ MOREHow Liberalism Can Survive Left-Right Polarization
We need to form in our minds a beautiful vision of the society and world we want to inhabit, not in its detailed operation like the central planners, and not as an end state like the socialist utopians, but in its ever-evolving institutions that serve human well being above all else.
READ MOREIf Libertarianism Hollowed Out, Why?
Becoming a libertarian doesn’t mean leaving your humanity behind; on the contrary, it means embracing it fully and believing that the potential of a free life on earth is far from fully realized.
READ MOREThe Case for a Coercive Green New Deal?
The founder of The Nation magazine would have completely rejected the Green New Deal as a socialist and illiberal disaster.
READ MOREThe Fairytale of Hegemonic Neoliberalism
Far from fighting to supplant a prevailing ideology for our age, “neoliberalism’s” critics appear to be battling a phantasm of their own imagining.
READ MORENo Complex Society Can Be Socialist
“Tonight,” Trump said, “we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.” Indeed no complex society can be.
READ MOREThe Dangers of Totalitarian Planning, Past and Present
All forms of government intervention — taxation and regulation — within a market economy are forms of government planning.
READ MOREYour Freedom and Rights are Highly Conditional, Says Court
Yes, the court decided the right way, but narrowly and not in a way that should calm the worries of anyone who believes in basic freedoms.
READ MORECuban Exile Sues Communist Regime for Expropriating Her Life
“Anything that our eyes could see, that our noses could smell, that our mouthes could taste, and that our ears could hear had to fit the [communist] ideological framework. Quite literally, the state expropriated my body.”
READ MOREPresident Trump’s First Year Included Setbacks for Liberty
President Trump has enacted some pro-market policies, but on the whole sets back the cause of liberty.
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