The Myth of Imminent Collapse
Worries about civilizational collapses by the Thunbergs and Extinction Rebellions of the world are exaggerated. We are nowhere near the brink of disaster.
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Reasons for Hope
The world would be a tiny bit less free and the economy faintly less productive without each of the many, mostly small, contributions to classical-liberal scholarship and to the sharing of liberal ideas with the public.
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The Myth of Heroism
“History and human progress are driven far more by ordinary people doing sometimes extraordinary things than by special people with a unique destiny.” ~ Stephen Davies
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Count Me Among the Fans of Downton Abbey
The real story of anarchy – life without the state – is not one of chaos but the opposite: our failing as a civilization is that we probably have an overly competent propensity to create social systems of control from which we end up having to rebel from time to time.
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Maybe It’s Good that Politics Has Become Ridiculous
When was the last time vast numbers of people commonly celebrated a domestic achievement of government? You have to go back a half century to the first moon landing.
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Even Swedish Socialism was Violent
Coercive policies extended beyond eugenic sterilization, forced and voluntary.
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Friends of Freedom, Do Not Despair
We must have the confidence that freedom is both good in itself and need not be compromised in the face of asserted collectivist dangers abroad or the challenges to liberty here at home.
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Private Expeditions in the 19th Century Were Far More Successful
Most of the tragedies – such as the Franklin expedition – were publicly funded.
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How Twitter is Corrupting the History Profession
Social media once held great promise as a means of facilitating scholarly exchange. Unfortunately, academics themselves are becoming some of its worst actors.
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George S. Schuyler, Anti-Racist Champion of Liberty
Throughout his career as a writer and journalist, which spanned from the 1920s to the 1970s, Schuyler was scathing in his analysis and relentless in his criticisms of white racism in the America of his time.
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The Three Errors of Conspiracy Theory, Even True Ones
As the friend/enemy dichotomy intensifies, conspiracy theory advances, and not without evidence: the more politicized society becomes, the more conspiracies really do exist.
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Have Two-Income Households Made Us Poorer?
Ordinary Americans are indeed today much richer than they were during any imagined past golden age.
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