Topic: History

Classical Liberalism, Economic Education, History

Uncomplicating a Complicated World: The Shining Legacy of Walter E. Williams

– March 4, 2022

“Walter Williams was vastly instrumental in showing us that the best solutions to the racial problems that bedevil us don’t come from the government who all too often caused a problem in the first place.” ~ Tarnell Brown

Books, Financial Markets, History

The Meme-Stock Revolution That Wasn’t

– March 3, 2022

“At the end of the day, argues Jakab, most retail investors were left holding the bag. Aside from the identifiable shorts like Gabe Plotkin or Andrew Left, most other Wall Street actors made a lot of money from the episode.” ~ Joakim Book

Art and Culture, History, Philosophy

Beauty Transcends Outrage

– March 3, 2022

“Strength of emotion cannot by itself justify moral outrage. We have a duty not to offend others without good reason, but we also have a duty not to be offended by others without good reason.” ~ Theodore Dalrymple

Authoritarianism, Economic Education, Government, History

Business Leaders Build Trust, Politicians Compel Compliance

– February 28, 2022

“While pursuing their interests, business leaders have an incentive to serve the welfare of others. Business leaders challenge their assumptions. Politicians act on unexamined assumptions and compel others to obey.” ~ Barry Brownstein

Fiscal Policy, Government, History

The State of the Union is…

– February 28, 2022

“It would be far better that we insist on following Thomas Jefferson’s lead. While his predecessors, Washington and Adams, delivered their State of the Union addresses in person every year, Jefferson just sent letters to Congress.” ~ James R. Harrigan

Economic Education, Free Markets, History

Efficiency Means More than Using the Existing Stock of Resources Well

– February 25, 2022

“In an open market economy, the stock of resources will never be fixed. The size and contents of that stock will change over time and that change is appropriately reckoned to be a result of the economic system.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

Economic Education, History, Inflation, Monetary Policy

What Can the US Learn from Argentina’s Inflation?

– February 24, 2022

“We can learn by looking at countries that have employed these strategies before. Inflation in the U.S. has been modest by Argentine standards. To keep it that way, the US must avoid repeating Argentina’s mistakes.” ~ Nicolás Cachanosky

Authoritarianism, Government, History

Uncivil Cause or Effect?

– February 23, 2022

“If I felt violations of my constitutional rights were being proposed or imposed, those violations of ‘the highest law of the land,’ not the civility with which I object, are the core of the problem.” ~ Gary M. Galles

Crisis, Government, History

The Third Party

– February 21, 2022

“What is certain is that either a viable third party must soon emerge, or the two major parties will split the country as they continue desperately to hold to power in the name of an ever shrinking minority of the people.” ~ Antony Davies

Economic Education, Government, History, Policy

The Democracy Illusion

– February 20, 2022

“America is already far beyond what can be justified as advancing our mutual well-being. And our government seems determined to double down on how far it oversteps, a strategy which necessarily shrinks liberty, and the benefits only liberty can provide.” ~ Gary M. Galles

Government, History, Media

D.C.’s “Best Information Available” Charade

– February 19, 2022

“Americans need their own ‘best information available’ axiom to automatically reject assertions from media outlets that shamelessly kowtow to politicians and government agencies.” ~ James Bovard

Classical Liberalism, Government, History

Government’s Deficiencies Reveal What No Government Should Do

– February 16, 2022

“Herbert Spencer saw representative government’s infirmities as limitations on government’s ability to do what it had no business doing, but not for its one essential role of defending rights from trespass.” ~ Gary M. Galles