Withdrawing From the Paris Climate Agreement Is the Right Call
The Paris Agreement surrenders our political independence and stifles global energy development that benefits people across the planet.
Anti-Capitalist Noam Chomsky’s Venezuela Lesson
Venezuela has greater oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. But because some people believe socialism is the answer to inequality, Venezuelans starve.
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.
Politicians are in “Crisis,” Not the Ordinary American
Outside the Washington Beltway, Life Goes on Very Normally
U.S. Should Not Turn a Blind Eye Toward Egypt’s Statism
The Cairo regime is notorious for flouting individual rights, freedom of speech, and rule of law. If Trump takes those political ideals seriously, he should call out, rather than turn a blind eye to, Egypt’s persistent authoritarianism.
Tariff Walls and Trade Wars Equal Government Planning
Both President Trump and Chinese President Xi are proponents of central planning, with the interests of the State taking precedence over the liberty and peaceful choices of their citizens.
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.
