History Was Supposed to End. What Happened?
Anyone paying close attention at the turn of the 21st century could foresee the impending failure of the social-democratic consensus throughout the developed world. The exalted experts who rose to power in the postwar period built gigantic state- …
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Thanksgiving and the Birth of American Free Enterprise
Once more it’s that time of the year when most Americans gather with family and friends to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. The turkey is carved, the stuffing and sweet potatoes are passed around, and many slices of pumpkin pie are happily consumed. …
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The Birth of the Deep State: A History
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act (1883) created a merit-based system of examinations and other requirements, and a salaried class of government employees.
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The Dark History of Swedish Socialism (Video)
Everyone knows that socialism is newly fashionable as an idea and system. With that has come a certain level of whitewashing of the real history. I’m not just speaking of the totalitarian variety with its poverty, inflation, starvation, and mass death. …
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The History and Meaning of the Berlin Wall
The history of the Berlin Wall and the collectivist ideology behind it should remind us of how important a loss any of our freedoms can be.
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The Reprise of the Personal State
The best idea of modernity was neither the personal nor nation state but the idea of human freedom, the conviction that societies and economies thrive most when left alone by bureaucracies and dictators.
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Actually, the Gilded Age Was Awesome for Equality
The invocation of the Gilded Age like a cheap political talking point is bad economics and bad economic history.
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Collectivist Revivalism and the New Attack on Liberty
Liberty cannot be destroyed as long as they are any who hold it dear in their hearts, who share what they know and understand about it with others.
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Introduction to Farsi Edition of Human Action
Now you own it. Learn from it. Return to it again and again. May it always be with us, widely circulated in every land and every language, forever.
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Progressivism Is An Imposter
We are nearly all socialists now, while not knowing it.
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Emergent Genius: The Case of Bill Evans
Great musical performance consists of at once learning all things and then forgetting all things to make something new. This is what Bill Evans did.
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Impeachment at Home and Climate Hysteria Abroad
Do we need another demonstration that politics is the problem and not the solution to human affairs?
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