The head of NASA convinces the President that space exploration should be done by private industry, and the United States government declares, “The first person to land on Mars, live there a year, and return alive owns the whole Red Planet.” Welcome to the greatest race in history.
The Paris Agreement surrenders our political independence and stifles global energy development that benefits people across the planet.
Venezuela has greater oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. But because some people believe socialism is the answer to inequality, Venezuelans starve.
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.
Outside the Washington Beltway, Life Goes on Very Normally
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.
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.
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.
There is no virtue in restraining the pursuit of profit: profit maximization is moral.
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