LGBT groups are not about individual rights for gays. Left-wing activist groups are about power. Appeasement doesn’t work.
CULTURE
The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century
Why did so many people turn their backs on the Western ideal of democratic, limited government and a market economy based on private ownership of the means of production?
American Schools: The Collapse, The Cause, The Cure
Why do U.S. students persistently score lower than students from other nations on international tests?
The Meaning of the Berlin Wall
On this 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we should remember all that it represented as a symbol of tyranny under which the individual was marked with the label: property of the state.
Jean-Baptiste Say: An Economist in Troubled Times
To consume, men must first produce.
A Financial History of Edinburgh: The Rise and Fall of Scotland’s City of Money
By removing the market’s solution to collapsing banks, this unraveling forced electorate-sensitive governments to take up the residual risk and backstop the financial system that Scottish banks themselves so effectively regulated in the past.
Game of Loans: Students Only Pay Back Loans If College Helps Them Succeed
Instead of forcing banks out of the student loan business, we should get government out of it.
U.S. in Decline Because of Left’s Attack on Traditional Moral Values
The left’s attack on religion is just the tiny tip of the iceberg in our nation’s moral decline.
Book Review: The Invention of the Passport
How and why governments have used the power of issuing official travel documents as a means of restricting the free movement of people during the last 200 years.
Interventionism: An Economic Analysis by Ludwig Von Mises
Interventions inevitably generate imbalances in the market that will force the government to either repeal the existing interventions or extend them in the futile attempt to use new interventions to compensate for the distortions its prior interventions have created, un…
A Compilation of the Madness and Intolerance on U.S. College Campuses
If you need an accurate update on some of the madness at the nation’s institutions of higher learning, check out Minding the Campus, a nonprofit independent organization.
Why Free-Market Economists and Historians Should Study Karl Marx
Karl Marx’s stubborn political staying power also requires that we grapple with his theory in an intelligent fashion and that we engage him seriously even if we judge his conclusions wanting.
Say’s Law and the Keynesian Revolution: How Macroeconomic Theory Lost Its Way by Steven Kates
Steven Kates refutes Keynes’s caricature of the classical economists. Ultimately it is always goods that are traded for goods. Say’s Law, properly understood, explains both what causes unemployment and how to solve it..
No More Altruism! Rejecting the Ethics of Self-Sacrifice
The first part of this post’s title is a quotation from a student in my business ethics class. She had said that to her teenagers after learning about rational self-interest, or egoism, in the course and reading How to Be Profitable and Moral . More exactly, she had...
The Joker Movie: Making Outcasts Into Monsters
The Joker depicts with a penetrating portrayal by Joaquin Phoenix of the much-maligned, non-college-bred white male, which is why the “social justice” thugs hate this film sight unseen, the various factors that breed one of today’s most persecuted minorities, the …
Literature and the Quest for Meaning by Lisa VanDamme
How classic literature can contribute to the vital quest for meaning.
Capitalism Has Produced the Glorious Emancipation of Women
Camille Paglia is a professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she has been a faculty member since 1984. Paglia describes herself as transgender, but unlike so many other transgender people, she is pro-capitalism and...
Life Lessons From The Death of a Beloved Brother
Kirk, the Best Brother Ever, R.I.P.
Academic Stupidity and Brainwashing
Brainwashing our youngsters is a serious matter. The people responsible for the Department of Education’s proposal ought to be summarily fired.
Racist Exam Questions or Educational Fraud in Baltimore
I’m wondering when the black community will demand an end to an educational environment that condemns so many youngsters to mediocrity.
School Bureaucrats Against Making Schools Better
Education bureaucrats love working in a monopoly where they are basically guaranteed jobs.
The Shameful Blackout of Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams
The exclusion of people like Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams explains why there’s no serious discussion in the black community about government dependency; school choice; the damage done by high taxes, excessive regulation and laws like minimum wage; …
Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action: Marking 70 Years of Continuing Relevance
Mises’s brilliant treatise continues to be read and taken seriously as a cornerstone for understanding the nature of the free society and the workings of the market economy.
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Segregation was a result of “open and explicit government-sponsored” policies.
The Last Emperor
Scott Holleran on Bertolucci’s muted, mythological, China-themed masterpiece.
Yaron Brook on The Ben Shapiro Show
Yaron Brook speaks on the Ben Shapiro Show on why capitalism cannot be justified on altruistic grounds, but only by rational egoism.
Lighthouses Were Private Until Government Took Them Over
There was nothing inherent to the lighthouse that made it a public good. It became a public good because government regulation made it so.
Correcting The “1619 Project”: America is Not A Democracy
In addition to not understanding our Constitution, Hannah-Jones’ article, like in most discussions of black history, fails to acknowledge that black Americans have made the greatest gains, over some of the highest hurdles in the shortest span of time than any other raci…
America Was Made Poorer Because Of Slavery
America was not made richer from slavery. America was made poorer by slavery.
What Will They Learn at College?
Spending four or more years in a politically correct college and accumulating tens of thousands of dollars in debt is not the only road to a successful life.
How Capitalist-Abolitionists Fought Slavery
Interest in the history of American capitalism is on the rise, although curiously this line of study is being advanced for anticapitalistic ideological reasons.
How Universities Misuse Donor Dollars
As long as universities continue to misrepresent how they use philanthropic gifts, philanthropists will remain wary of the high potential for misuse that accompanies large donations.
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