Trump and The GOP Support The Socialist Principles Underlying Obamacare
ObamaCare is succeeding, because its goal is a single-pay state monopoly in medicine; the failure it’s causing in America’s health insurance market is simply a means to that end.
Alexander Hamilton’s Liberalism: Distinguishing Fact and Myth
Hamilton is an Enlightened, classical liberal, a more consistent champion of rights and liberty than any other Founder, thus an inspiring model for contemporary friends of liberty.
Why Republicans Failed to Repeal Obamacare
Republican Senators have clearly demonstrated that, without the correct principles, there is no basis for health care policy.
The Inca Elite and the “Communism” of the Common People
The Inca rulers imposed on almost all in society a compulsory equalitarianism in virtually all things.
July Fourth Celebrates America’s and the West’s Core Values
America — as the greatest product of Western civilization — is the greatest country in the world. But it cannot remain great unless we understand the causes of its greatness.
The Rise and Fall of Property Rights in America
Adam Mossoff traces the rise and fall of property rights in America.
A Declaration of Independence from Bad Government
Never before in history had a people declared and then established a government based on the principles of the individual’s right to his life, liberty, and property.
Government Monopoly Money vs. Personal Choice in Currency
Greater monetary freedom would not only give every citizen a legal right to protect and secure his income, wealth and market transactions from abusive mismanagement of the government’s monopoly monetary printing press. It could also serve as a check on the degree of such government abuse.
Nothing Less Than Victory
Nothing Less than Victory provocatively shows that aggressive, strategic military offenses can win wars and establish lasting peace, while defensive maneuvers have often led to prolonged carnage, indecision, and stalemate.
The Smartphone Wars and “Patent Trolls”
There are widespread complaints today that the “patent system is broken” and that the “smartphone wars” and “patent trolls” are killing innovation. Yet patented innovation has revolutionized our lives today—tablet computers, smartphones and antiviral drugs are just a few of these modern marvels. How to make sense of this contradiction?
Jean-Baptiste Say and the “Law of Markets”
Say’s Law of Markets already included the answers to the questions against free markets with which the Keynesians attempted to challenge the efficacy of capitalism a century later.
Karl Marx’s Ideas and Errors About Capitalism and Communism, Part Two
The task is not to be on some mythical “right side of history,” but to make history reflect the triumph and success of the idea and ideals of human liberty.
Karl Marx’s Ideas and Errors About Capitalism and Markets, Part One
Marx saw himself as the sociological and economic analyst of the capitalist epoch through which he was living.
Abortion Rights are Pro-Life
Abortion-rights advocates should not cede the terms “pro-life” and “right to life” to the anti-abortionists. It is a woman’s right to her life that gives her the right to terminate her pregnancy.
The Truth About Climate Change
Is nature’s inherent dynamism responsible for the climate change of our era? Or are the cause(s) man-made?
Economic Ideas: Frédéric Bastiat on the Law of Liberty and Free Markets
Almost 170 years have passed since Frédéric Bastiat’s death, but there are few writers on economic topics that remain as readable or relevant to the issues of our own day.
A Message to Graduating Students
If you want to lead a successful life, our most urgent advice to you is to reject your professors’ assaults on reason and individualism.
Politicians are in “Crisis,” Not the Ordinary American
Outside the Washington Beltway, Life Goes on Very Normally
Political Planning Requires Coercion; Market Planning Requires Cooperation
The essential element in government planning is the threat or use of force to make all the others in society conform to political planner’s purposes and intentions.
The Virtue of Profit Maximization
There is no virtue in restraining the pursuit of profit: profit maximization is moral.
Trade Deficits Are Only Dangerous When Caused By Government
Governments have sold their bonds to fund vote-buying welfare state spending, or expanding bureaucracies with loyal supporters of power-hungry politicians, or on delusional dreams of military power, or colossal public works projects hailing the greatness of the dictatorial or democratically elected leader.
Wrong Lessons from Canada’s Private Currency, Part 3
The real lessons to be learned from Canada’s 19th-century currency system.
Wrong Lessons from Canada’s Private Currency, Part 2
The real lessons to be learned from Canada’s 19th-century currency system.
Wrong Lessons from Canada’s Private Currency, Part 1
The real lessons to be learned from Canada’s 19th-century currency system.
The Facts About Corporate Taxation
Taxing corporate income doesn’t benefit but hurts workers while discouraging investment.
The Anti-Capitalist Counter-Revolution On College Campuses
The intellectual intolerance and resort to physical force to prevent speakers from addressing students represents a dangerous totalitarian streak among so-called “progressives.”
Transitioning to Capitalism in The Socialist Republic of Vietnam
To fully achieve flourishing, the Vietnamese need not only economic but political freedom.