France Is the Socialist Future We Should Dread
France 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.
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Political Contests Are Between Competing Socialisms
The 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.
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Postmodern Monetary Theory
How the strange funding scheme behind the Green New Deal rejects the scientific foundations of economics
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The Labor Shortage Is Acute in Many Industries
The 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.
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Anti-Socialism Isn’t (Necessarily) Pro-Capitalism
Anti-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.
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About this Proposal to End Air Travel
How to account for the existence of a document – widely trumpeted by the media – which proposes that we replace modern life for totalitarian government control?
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Why Centrally Planned War Cannot Work
All organized activities face challenges posed by knowledge problems, and warfare is no exception.
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Why MMT (Ultimately) Doesn’t Matter
MMT 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.
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No 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.
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The Downsides and Dangers of Mission Making
Mission making turns economic decision-making into a political conflict of interest groups possessing bargaining power in the halls of government to determine what gets done, in what ways, and for whose benefit.
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How to Recognize the Fascistic Turn
In explicitly promoting righteousness at the expense of factualness, Ocasio-Cortez is — in pursuit of socialistic ends — doing so beneath the mantle of fascism.
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The Green New Dealers and the New Socialism
Understanding their misguided political assumptions and the damaging economic consequences that would follow from their coming to power is essential if a “green” road to serfdom is to be avoided.
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