Compelling people to be “decent” through government taxing and spending in fact drains decency from human relationships.
READ MOREHayek still speaks to us today about the nature of democratic ways of relating to the rule of law, the structure of government, the role of public policy, and the promise of an international order of cosmopolitan liberalism.
READ MORERegardless of the intentions or naïve beliefs, a system of democratic socialism cannot escape imposing commands and controls over economic life any noticeably different than those that were in existence in the old Soviet Union.
READ MOREFrance was once a role model for what big government can do for its people, the very model of socialism sought by the American left. Now the place is in shambles.
READ MOREThe classical liberal must remake the moral case for individual liberty and the individual rights without which freedom cannot last in the long run – and remake the case for why the paternalism of socialism and the welfare state leaves us less human than we can or should want to be.
READ MOREHow the strange funding scheme behind the Green New Deal rejects the scientific foundations of economics
READ MOREThe data alone tell the story no one wants to hear. Continued economic growth does not so much allow as require the inclusion – indeed the expansion – of the number of undocumented immigrants on American employment rolls.
READ MOREAnti-socialism without a coherent alternative tends to degenerate into a contradictory, idiosyncratic, and logically incoherent case for some unstable, impure mixture of the two systems.
READ MOREHow to account for the existence of a document – widely trumpeted by the media – which proposes that we replace modern life for totalitarian government control?
READ MOREAll organized activities face challenges posed by knowledge problems, and warfare is no exception.
READ MOREMMT is an academically-garbed attempt to overcome the unwelcome fact that governments are as bound by economic limits as firms and individuals are. Yet liberty always triumphs.
READ MORE“Tonight,” Trump said, “we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.” Indeed no complex society can be.
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